Baroque tendencies in contemporary art
By: edited by Kelly A. Wacker.
Contributors: Wacker, Kelly Ann, 1966-
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Newcastle, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781847183873
Subjects: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives; Art, Baroque -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliograpical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of images; title: Foreword / Angela Ndalianis; title: Ch. 1. Baroque tendencies in contemporary art  / Kelly A. Wacker; title: Ch. 2. Baroque-centricity in Arte povera / Laura Petican; title: Ch. 3. Baroque space in postwar Italian painting / Adrian Duran; title: Ch. 4. Frank Stella : the Baroque to the rescue of abstract art? : the reception of Frank Stella's work in France since 1975 / Hélène Trespeuch; title: Ch. 5. Neo-Baroque and Baroque : situating Lucian Freud between Reubens and Rembrandt / Michelle Lang; title: Ch. 6. Neo-Baroque spectacle and the female body in the work of Jenny Saville, Lisa Yuksavage, and John Currin / Catherine Wilcox-Titus; title: Ch. 7. The Baroque and the new : Jeff Koons and the concept of baptism / Raphaël Bouvier; title: Ch. 8. An immodest proposal : how the Baroque meets cannibalism in Adriana Varejão's tileworks / Miranda Lash; title: Ch. 9. Neobarrocco Mexicano, the ins and outs / Christopher Fulton; title: Ch. 10. Baroque tendencies in contemporary architecture : the Guggenheim Bilbao / Irene Nero; title: Ch. 11. Chaos/appearance/Baroque / Richard Reddaway; title: Contributors; title: Index.