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Author Pérez, Rolando

Title Severo Sarduy and the Neo-Baroque Image of Thought in the Visual Arts
Published Ashland : Purdue University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages)
Series Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Purdue studies in Romance literatures.
Contents Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Sarduy as Critic of the Baroque and the Neo-Baroque Figure in Science and Art; Figures of Scientific Rhetoric; Figure I: The Perfect, Moral Circle of the High Renaissance; Figure II: The Ellipse, or the Unnatural, "Perverted" Circle; Figure III: Trompe l'Œil and the Anamorphic Image; Figure IV: The Aberrant Image of Simulation; Figure V: The Neo-Mannerism of the Spanish, Colonial, and Neo-Baroque Image; "Conclusion" by Way of the Retombée
Chapter Two: Sarduy's Figural Art/Writing: Writing/Art BodyThe Architectural Body; The Painterly Body: Bronzino, Rubens, and Beyond; Biological Anamorphosis, Trompe l'Œil, and Body Painting; The Colonial and Monstrous Body; Fetishism and the Body That Is Double ... and More Than Double; Fijeza, Yin-Yang, and the Inscribed Body of Sadomasochism; The Eastern White Body of "Emptiness"; Chapter Three: Big Bang, Klang Klang, and Painting; The Pictorial/Rhetorical Figure of the Universe (Barroco and Big Bang); White: Red and Black; From Mallarmé's Typography to Concrete Poetry and Galáxias
The New World Baroque Aesthetics of Big BangThe Music in Painting/Writing: Lorca, Jazz, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Etc.; The Figural Body of the Dance of Life and Death; Conclusion; Chapter Four: Colors, Bodies, Voices, and the Click-Clack of Theater; The Four Primary Colors; White, Black, and Red; The Erotic Body; Sound and Music; Funerary Baroque; Del Yin al Yang; Decolonization: The Circle of Los matadores de hormigas; Conclusion; Conclusions Continuities; Illustrations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sarduy, Severo -- Criticism and interpretation
Sarduy, Severo -- Knowledge -- Art
Sarduy, Severo -- Aesthetics
SUBJECT Sarduy, Severo. fast (OCoLC)fst00035456
Subject Art and literature.
Aesthetics.
Art.
Art and literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612491486
1612491480