TY - BOOK ID - 85721789 TI - Baroque : Figures of Excess in Seventeenth-Century European Art and German Literature PY - 2019 SN - 3846764000 3770564006 PB - Paderborn Brill | Fink DB - UniCat KW - Literature. KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Cultural studies. KW - German literature KW - Baroque literature KW - Arts, Baroque KW - Aesthetics, Baroque. KW - History and criticism. KW - Baroque aesthetics KW - Baroque arts KW - Architektur KW - Skulptur KW - Malerei KW - Poetik KW - Lyrik KW - Drama KW - Roman KW - System KW - Ästhetik KW - interdisziplinär KW - Architecture KW - Sculpture KW - Painting KW - Poetics KW - Poetry KW - Novel KW - Aesthetics KW - Interdisciplinary UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85721789 AB - What is the Baroque? Where did it come from and where did it go? Why do we have to ask these questions? Because art historians seem largely satisfied with their answers and most scholars of German literature are not satisfied, yet have stopped asking.This book discerns in the Baroque an aesthetic phenomenon that crosses both media and national boundaries in its celebration of excess and its disintegration of system, unity, and identity. The compositional principles and theoretical implications of the Baroque, as it first arose in Italian art, find expression in German poetics, drama, poetry, and narrative - expression accessible only through resolute close reading. Readings of Bernini, Borromini, Velázquez, Rubens, Fracanzano, and de Hooch precipitate readings of Opitz, Gryphius, Fleming, Zesen, Hoffmannswaldau, and Grimmelshausen, demonstrating that seventeenth-century German literature both is Baroque and confirms what the Baroque is. ER -