Conceptions and reworkings of baroque and neobaroque in recent years

CLAIRE FARAGO; HELEN HILLS; MONIKA KAUP; GABRIELA SIRACUSANO; JENS BAUMGARTEN; STEFANO JACOVIELLO

Perspective

Institut National d´Histoire de l´art INHA

Lugar: Paris; Año: 2015 vol. 1 p. 43 - 62

Baroque needs to be thought across chronological and geographical divides to connect architecture and dance, painting and natural science, philosophy, sculpture and music (and not in the sense of representations of music) and, above all, in relation to encounters with difference ? heavenly, earthly, social, political, religious, geographical. What possibilities in baroque are open now in relation to present dilemmas in art history and world events?Baroque enables ? arguably, it demands ? a radical rethinking of historical time ? and a rethinking of familiar history. It permits a liberation from periodization and linear time, as well as from historicism. While the scholars below acknowledge that baroque is often equated with style or historical period, it is most productively thought beyond them. Mieke Bal has argued that baroque epistemology permits an ?hallucinatory quality? of relation between past and present that also allows a release from a supposed academic objectivity, while ...Traduction de Susan WiseClaire Farago, Helen Hills, Monika Kaup, Gabriela Siracusano, Jens Baumgarten et Stefano Jacoviello, « Conceptions and reworkings of baroque and neobaroque in recent years », Perspective [En ligne], 1 | 2015, mis en ligne le 31 janvier 2017, consulté le 23 octobre 2015. URL : http://perspective.revues.org/5792 ; DOI : 10.4000/perspective.5792Ce document sera publié en ligne en texte intégral en janvier 2017.