THE CORNUCOPIAN MIND & THE BAROQUE UNITY OF THE ARTS by Maiorino, Giancarlo - (1990).

University Park, PA: Penn State Univ. Press. Light edge wear and rubbing, clean copy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1990.

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. x, 210 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. No writing in text. DJ in mylar. "This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo and Giordano Bruno are taken as the founding fathers of the Baroque, and we see that beyond the Alps their lessons were echoed in Montaigne, Cervantes, and the Counter-Reformation culture of the Mediterranean basin. Maiorino shows that the common denominator that links the origins of the Baroque to its maturity is the concept of form as "process," which is then articulated into chapters on the formative unity of the arts, art forms at the threshold, and the development from humanist perfection to Baroque perfectibility. Such an evolution in literature and the arts is situated in relation to the age of explorations (Columbus), scientific inventions (the… Read More

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1989. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 210 pp. .

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1990-03. Hardcover. Good.

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. xi, 210 pp, list of b&w illustrations, acknowledgments, introduction, Part I: Life's Boundless Furtherance, Part II: The Formative Unity of the Arts, Part III: The Progress of Perfrectibility, notes, index. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red cloth..

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. Hardcover. As new, clean, tight & bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket. 210pp, 30 b/w figures.

University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. x, 210pp, b/w illustrations, notes, index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. 'The book will be of interest to all scholars concerned with the history of ideas, cultural history, and the Baroque in literature in art.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Penn State University Press, 2008. Softcover. As new.. This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo and Giordano Bruno are taken as the founding fathers of the Baroque, and we see that beyond the Alps their lessons were echoed in Montaigne, Cervantes, and the Counter-Reformation culture of the Mediterranean basin. Maiorino shows that the common denominator that links the origins of the Baroque to its maturity is the concept of form as process, which is then articulated into chapters on the formative unity of the arts, art forms at the threshold, and the development from humanist perfection to Baroque perfectibility. Such an evolution in literature and the arts is situated in relation to the age of explorations (Columbus), scientific inventions (the telescope), and the fundamental shift from the enclosed Ptolemic system to the open universe of the Copernican revolution. At the Baroque point of origin,… Read More

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2008. Paperback. New. 224 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.51 inches.

Penn State University Press. Paperback. New. 8x5x0. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing