Main entry:

Levy, Evonne Anita, 1961- author.

Title & Author:

Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque / Evonne Levy.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
©2004

Description:

353 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Notes:
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-332) and index.
The "Jesuit style" -- Rhetoric versus propaganda -- The propagandist -- Message -- Diffusion -- Postscript from Berlin.

Summary:

"In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the "propagandistic" art and architecture of the Jesuit order as exemplified by its late Baroque Roman church interiors. The first extensive analysis of the aims, mechanisms, and effects of Jesuit art and architecture, this original and sophisticated study also evaluates how the term "propaganda" functions in art history, distinguishes it from rhetoric, and proposes a precise use of the term for the visual arts for the first time. Levy begins by looking at Nazi architecture as a gateway to the emotional and ethical issues raised by the term "propaganda." Jesuit art once stirred similar passions, as she shows in a discussion of the controversial nineteenth-century rubric the "Jesuit Style." She then considers three central aspects of Jesuit art as essential components of propaganda: authorship, message, and diffusion. Levy tests her theoretical formulations against a broad range of documents and works of art, including the Chapel of St. Ignatius and other major works in Rome by Andrea Pozzo as well as chapels in Central Europe and Poland." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/2003017328.html.

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ISBN:

0520233573
9780520233577

Subject:

Jesuiten
Jesuit art Europe.
Jesuit architecture Europe.
Counter-Reformation in art.
Art, Baroque.
Propaganda in art.
National socialism and art.
Art jésuite Europe.
Architecture jésuite Europe.
Contre-Réforme dans l'art.
Art baroque.
Propagande dans l'art.
Nazisme et art.
Jesuit architecture
Jesuit art
Rhetorik
Kunst
Kerkinterieurs.
Barok.
Contrareformatie.
Jezuïeten.
Europe

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231435
Call No.: N7865 .L48 2004
Status: Available