Übergangs- und Krisenperioden in der antiken Kunst. Phänomen des sog. Manierismus. - PELIKÁN, O.,

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'Mannerism as a distinct style has only received recognition from art historians in recent years. The publication of this brief monograph was inspired by the spate of books on mannerist art of the sixteenth century that appeared in the years following the second world war. Pelikán, an authority on this subject, rightly points out the inadequacy of the conventional view of mannerism as the subjective development, in the post-Renaissance period, of exaggerated anti-classical tendencies that were only later to be resolved in baroque art. The author further contends, again with justification, that historians of ancient art have rarely treated mannerism seriously, being largely content to acknowledge the appearance of the style on an ad hoc basis as a quirk of the individual artist. (...). P.'s search for an historical interpretation of the style is to be welcomed. He sees it as an expression of the sense of crisis experienced in transitional periods of history, in which basic but contradictory conceptions of rend...
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1977Uitgever: Univerzita J.E. Purkyne V Brne