xxxii, 292 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents:
Feeling Baroque in art and neuroscience : joy, sadness, pride, and a Spinozist solution to the quest for happiness / Monika Kaup -- The Baroque sublime : the affective power of landscape / Helen Langdon -- "Their jarring spheres confound" : John Milton's Paradise lost as a counter-Baroque war machine / Justin Clemens -- "To make them gaze in wonder" : emotional responses to stage scenery in seventeenth-century opera / Katrina Grant -- The role of emotions in the characters of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Autos sacramentales / Javier de la Rosa, Adriana Soto-Corominas, and Juan Luis Suárez -- Clouds and calculated emotions in the production of neo-Baroque spatial illusions in Las Vegas hotels and casinos / Peter Krieger -- Mirrors of reason, illusion, and infinity : the case of the Villa Patrizi / David Marshall -- Infinite bodies : the Baroque, the Counter-Reformation relic and the body of James II / Matthew Martin -- Chican@ saints : the persistence of religious bodies in Mexican America / Kat Austin -- The ecstasy (?) of Saint Teresa / John Weretka -- Faith and fetish : objects and the body in Catholic devotional practice / Lisa Beaven -- Hannibal : Baroque horror vacui and the theatre of senses / Angela Ndalianis
Summary:
This book 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