Baroque and Rococo: Art and Culture (Trade Version) (Hardcover)

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This text explores the styles, institutions, cities and genres that shaped the Baroque and Rococo periods' great artistic outpourings. It aims to capture the cultural currents of the time from Counter Reformation to Lois XIV's Versailles to bourgeois Amsterdam.

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From 1600 to 1760, Baroque and Rococo artists brought a newfound energy, emotion, and elegance to European painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts. This profusely illustrated survey is the first to incorporate modern scholarship and examine the Baroque and Rococo eras contextually. Vernon Hyde Minor explores the styles, institutions, cities, and genres that shaped this period's great artistic outpouring-and illuminates the achievements of Bernini, Caravaggio, Fragonard, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velzquez, Vermeer, Watteau, and other notable artists. With unusually thorough coverage of women artists, town planning, and domestic interiors and gardening, Baroque & Rococo brilliantly captures the swirling cultural currents of the time from Counter Reformation Rome to Louis XIV's Versailles to bourgeois Amsterdam. 359 illustrations, 150 in full color, 8 x 10" Vernon Hyde Minor is chair of the department of fine arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of Abrams' Art History's History.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; Trade edition edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810941082
• ISBN-13: 978-0810941083
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,369,674 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars mediocre, August 18, 2005

By	J. Kopta (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Baroque and Rococo: Art and Culture (Hardcover)

I was an art history student when I took a class in 18th century art. This text is unfortunately the only survey of Rococo and French academy art from the era, so there are very few alternatives than just the Rococo chapter in a general survey book like Janson's History of Art. The material is organized thematically, not chronologically, which could be engaging if the text was not so confusing or superficial. Most of the book focuses on the art of the 17th century, and absolutely nothing after 1760. The section on Rococo interiors is fairly comprehensive, however, and to his credit, Minor does include writings from Winkelmann and Diderot, grave omissions from previous survey texts.

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth the Effort, November 27, 2002

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Being an art history major and having read numerous books on 17th and 18th art, I found Minor's work to be one of the least helpful or accessible. He arranges his text by subjects instead of chronologically or by artist or by country. Though an interesting approach, it makes it difficult to follow the development of the arts through the centuries. Anyone really interested in Baroque art and culture should look instead to Julius Held and Donald Posner's classic text.

5 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars goody goodness, February 15, 2004

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This review is from: Baroque and Rococo: Art and Culture (Hardcover)

this book is good. i liked it. it was not bad. it was good. not poop. good book. tasty.

my teeth itch.