Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque

by Lisa Beaven (Editor), Angela Ndalianis (Editor)

Overview

Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque examines the relationship between the cultural productions of the baroque in the seventeenth century and the neo-baroque in our contemporary world. It asks the question: 'Is the baroque a recurring phenomenon that has returned in aspects of contemporary global culture, or is it something specific to the early modern period?' It argues one of the common and central features of both styles is their appeal to emotion. This volume illuminates how, rather than providing rationally ordered visual realms, both the baroque and the neo-baroque construct complex performative spaces whose spectacle seeks to embrace, immerse and seduce the senses and solicit the emotions of the beholder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580442718
Publisher:	Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date:	07/31/2018
Series:	Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture , #59
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.65(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lisa Margaret Beaven and Angela Ndalianis, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Lisa Margaret Beaven and Angela Ndalianis, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction Feeling Baroque in Art and Neuroscience: Joy, Sadness, Pride, and a Spinozist Solution to the Quest for Happiness by Monika Kaup The Baroque Sublime: The Affective Power of Landscape by Helen Langdon "Their Jarring Spheres Confound": John Milton's Paradise Lost as a Counter-Baroque War Machine by Justin Clemens "To Make Them Gaze in Wonder": Emotional Responses to Stage Scenery in Seventeenth-Century Opera by Katrina Grant The Role of Emotions in the Characters of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Autos Sacramentales by Javier de la Rosa, Adriana Soto-Corominas, and Juan Luis Suarez Clouds and Calculated Emotions in the Production of Neo-Baroque Spatial Illusions in Las Vegas Hotels and Casinos by Peter Krieger Mirrors of Reason, Illusion, and Infinity: The Case of the Villa Patrizi by David Marshall Infinite Bodies: The Baroque, the Counter-Reformation Relic and the Body of James II by Matthew Martin Chican@ Saints: The Persistence of Religious Bodies in Mexican America by Kat Austin The Ecstasy (?) of Saint Teresa by John Weretka Faith and Fetish: Objects and the Body in Catholic Devotional Practice by Lisa Beaven Hannibal: Baroque Horror Vacui and the Theatre of Senses by Angela Ndalianis