Baroquemania - Italian Visual Culture Construction of National Identity, 18981945

Baroquemania offers a new account of Italian post-unification visual culture through its entanglement with the Baroque. Interrogating the Baroque's fraught afterlife in the work of Giorgio de Chirico, Armando Brasini, Lucio Fontana and others, the book reveals its role in crafting a distinctively Italian approach to modern art.

About the author

Laura Moure Cecchini is Assistant Professor of Art History at Colgate University

Summary

Baroquemania offers a new account of Italian post-unification visual culture through its entanglement with the Baroque. Interrogating the Baroque’s fraught afterlife in the work of Giorgio de Chirico, Armando Brasini, Lucio Fontana and others, the book reveals its role in crafting a distinctively Italian approach to modern art. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Laura Moure Cecchini
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781526176370
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7637-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Italy, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Social and cultural history, baroque, Art & design styles: Baroque, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo