Baroquemania

Italian visual culture and the construction of national identity, 18981945

By: Laura Moure Cecchini

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Paperback | 12 December 2023

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288 Pages

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Baroquemania explores the intersections of art, architecture and criticism to show how reimagining the Baroque helped craft a distinctively Italian approach to modern art.

Offering a bold reassessment of post-unification visual culture, the book examines a wide variety of media and ideologically charged discourses on the Baroque, both inside and outside the academy. Key episodes in the modern afterlife of the Baroque are addressed, notably the Decadentist interpretation of Gianlorenzo Bernini, the 1911 universal fairs in Turin and Rome, Roberto Longhi's historically grounded view of Futurism, architectural projects in Fascist Rome and the interwar reception of Adolfo Wildt and Lucio Fontana's sculpture. Featuring a wealth of visual materials, Baroquemania offers a fresh look at a central aspect of Italy's modern art.

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'This is a very well-written and extremely well-researched book on a fascinating topic. It is certainly essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Italian art.'
Francesca Billiani, Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester.

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