TY - BOOK ID - 78675996 TI - Breaking with convention in Italian art PY - 2017 SN - 1527500543 9781527500549 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Art, Italian KW - Italian art KW - Bamboccianti (Group of artists) KW - Corrente (Group of artists) KW - Cracking Art (Group of artists) KW - Fronte nuovo delle arti (Group of artists) KW - Geometria e ricerca (Group of artists) KW - Girasole (Group of artists) KW - Gruppo 1 (Group of artists) KW - Gruppo Aniconismo dialettico (Group of artists) KW - Gruppo di Como (Group of artists) KW - Gruppo di Scicli (Group of artists) KW - Gruppo Enne (Group of artists) KW - Gruppo Forma uno (Group of artists) KW - Italiens de Paris (Group of artists) KW - Mutus Liber (Group of artists) KW - Novecento italiano (Group of artists) KW - Nuovi-nuovi (Group of artists) KW - Origine (Group of artists) KW - Sei pittori di Torino (Group of artists) KW - Transvisionismo (Group of artists) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78675996 AB - Popularized by the hit television show, the phrase "breaking bad" is defined in urban slang as someone who challenges convention, defies authority, or rejects moral and social norms. Running from 2008 to 2013 on AMC, Breaking Bad featured one of the most unforgettable characters in television history: Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher, husband, and father, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. For five seasons, fans watched as Walter White tried to secure financial security for his family by using his chemistry skills to manufacture drugs. Throughout the series' run, Walter White was the epitome of the phrase "breaking bad", as he broke the law and continually rejected the social mores that he had dutifully followed until his cancer diagnosis.Taking its cue from Walter White, this volume explores the various ways in which artists, patrons, and art historians throughout history have broken bad by defying authority, challenging convention, or rejecting the norm. For example, artists also sometimes break away from tradition by using unconventional iconography, as is the case in Chapter Two, which investigates how Etruscan tomb reliefs show mourning rather than celebration. The book also includes a chapter in which an art historian breaks bad by challenging the conventional interpretation and date of an object, thus eschewing tradition and defying authority. In this case, Chapter Three disputes the largely accepted Hellenistic date and interpretation of the Tazza Farnese, and instead asserts that the cameo must be Roman.Spanning the art of ancient Etruria to the twentieth century, the eight chapters here explore the theme of breaking bad from a variety of time periods and artistic media, from Etruscan mirrors and Roman cameos to Baroque portraits and Italian Pop Art. Scholars approach the topic of breaking bad from a number of perspectives, including examining the artist, patronage, reception, propaganda, iconography, methodology, and use. ER -