Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque
ISBN: 9781580442725
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Medieval Institute Publications
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Emotions in art; Arts -- Psychological aspects; Arts Baroque -- Themes motives; Arts Baroque -- Influence;

Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque examines the relationship between the cultural productions of the baroque in the seventeenth century and the neo-baroque in our contemporary world. The volume illuminates how, rather than providing rationally ordered visual realms, both the baroque and the neo-baroque construct complex performative spaces whose spectacle seeks to embrace, immerse, and seduce the senses and solicit the emotions of the beholder.


Lisa Beaven was a research fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Melbourne, between 2015 and 2017, and is currently a lecturer at La Trobe University. She has published widely on collecting and patronage in seventeenth-century Rome. Her book, An Ardent Patron: Cardinal Camillo Massimo and his Artistic and Antiquarian Circle, was published in 2010 (Paul Holberton Press and C.E.E.H.). Angela Ndalianis is Professor in Media in the Department of Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research focuses on entertainment culture and media histories as well as the transhistorical and transcultural nature of the baroque. Her publications include Neo-baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment (MIT Press, 2004), The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses (McFarland, 2012), Science Fiction Experiences (New Academia, 2009), The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero (ed., Routledge, 2008), and Neo-baroques: From Latin America to the Hollywood Blockbuster (co-edited, Rodopi Press, 2017).
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