The Matter of violence in Baroque painting / Bogdan Cornea.

• Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as 'over the top' and 'excessive'. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as reflecting the presumed violence of early modern society. This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque paintings expose or reference their materiality by insisting on various physical changes wrought through violence. This study approaches violence as the work of materiality, which has the potential to analogously stage pictorial surfaces as corporeal surfaces, where paint becomes flayed flesh, canvas threads ruptured skin, and red paint spilt blood. 

Ämnesord

Våld i konsten  (sao)

Barockkonst  (sao)

Målarkonst  (sao)

Violence in art.  (LCSH)

Art, Baroque  -- Themes, motives. (LCSH)

History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600.  (bicssc)

Art and design styles: Baroque.  (bicssc)

Violence in society.  (bicssc)

ART / History / Baroque & Rococo.  (bisacsh)

ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure.  (bisacsh)

HISTORY / Renaissance.  (bisacsh)

Violence in art.  (fast)

Paintings and painting.  (thema)

Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss.  (thema)

Violence and abuse in society.  (thema)

Art, Baroque  -- Themes, motives. (fast)

Art, Baroque  (LCSH)

Violence in art  (LCSH)

Painting  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

N8257 (LCC)

709.032 (DDC)

Ib.43 (kssb/8 (machine generated))