Emotion and the seduction of the senses, Baroque to neo-Baroque / edited by Lisa Beaven and Angela Ndalianis

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beaven, Lisa, editor.

Ndalianis, Angela, 1960- editor.

EBSCOhost

Series:

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; 59.

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions in art.

Arts, Baroque--Themes, motives.

Arts, Baroque.

Arts, Baroque--Influence.

Arts, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.

Arts, Modern.

Arts, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.

Arts--Psychological aspects.

Arts.

Aesthetics, Baroque.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 292 pages, 16 pages of plates) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2018]

Contents:

Feeling Baroque in art and neuroscience : joy, sadness, pride, and a Spinozist solution to the quest for happiness / Monika Kaup

The Baroque sublime : the affective power of landscape / Helen Langdon

"Their jarring spheres confound" : John Milton's Paradise lost as a counter-Baroque war machine / Justin Clemens

"To make them gaze in wonder" : emotional responses to stage scenery in seventeenth-century opera / Katrina Grant

The role of emotions in the characters of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Autos sacramentales / Javier de la Rosa, Adriana Soto-Corominas, and Juan Luis Suárez

Clouds and calculated emotions in the production of neo-Baroque spatial illusions in Las Vegas hotels and casinos / Peter Krieger

Mirrors of reason, illusion, and infinity : the case of the Villa Patrizi / David Marshall

Infinite bodies : the Baroque, the Counter-Reformation relic and the body of James II / Matthew Martin

Chican@ saints : the persistence of religious bodies in Mexican America / Kat Austin

The ecstasy (?) of Saint Teresa / John Weretka

Faith and fetish : objects and the body in Catholic devotional practice / Lisa Beaven

Hannibal : Baroque horror vacui and the theatre of senses / Angela Ndalianis

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version: Emotion and the seduction of the senses, Baroque to neo-Baroque.

ISBN:

9781580442725

1580442722

Publisher Number:

90100329608

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