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Ribald Man with a cranky look. The Sarmatian portrait as the pop-cultural symbol of the Baroque in Poland [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2016
This article analyses how it was that the Sarmatian portrait, a phenomenon typical of Polish Baroque art in the twentieth century, came to be a symbol of Polishness, and to what extent this pop-cultural vision of the ‘Polish Baroque’ was formed by ...
Emilia Kłoda, Adam Szeląg
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IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 298-310, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article seeks to elucidate the term ‘Hoffmannesque’ — the eponymous adjective that refers to E. T. A. Hoffmann — through recourse to Hoffmann's own use of ‘esque’ words: arabesque, grotesque, burlesque, picturesque. By investigating the characteristics of ‘esque’ formulations and tracing their recurrence through Hoffmann's texts, I argue ...
Polly Dickson
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Almodóvar’s Baroque Transitions in the Early Films (1980–1995)

Humanities
Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar has been detected early on by film critics as a Baroque filmmaker, a qualification to which he has agreed in interviews.
Frederic Conrod
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ANATOMY LESSONS: TRANS LIFE BETWEEN PORTRAITURE AND PERFORMANCE IN PAUL B. PRECIADO'S ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (2023)

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 419-436, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article considers how trans lives are mediated across literary, painterly and filmic registers in Paul B. Preciado's Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). My analysis draws on Andrew Webber's development of reading practices applied to intertextual works that also exhibit interpictorial and interfilmic dynamics in his reading of a scene
Lawrence Alexander
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The Baroque: the intellectual and geopolitical reasons for a historiographical erasure

Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2012
“The Baroque: the intellectual and geopolitical reasons for a historiographical erasure” highlights the need for a new way of conceptualizing the Baroque, taking into account the period’s plurality of discourses and diverging tendencies, specifically in ...
Jesús Pérez-Magallón
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Écrire le Baroque, écrire baroque

Acta Fabula, 2001
Cet article est un compte-rendu du livre : Pelegrin, Benito, Figurations de l'infini. L'Âge Baroque européen, Paris, Le Seuil, 2000.
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Pioneer of Medical Mycology: In Memory of Prof. Friedrich Staib, MD, DVM

Mycoses, Volume 69, Issue 7, July 2026.
ABSTRACT At the beginning of Friedrich Staib's academic career in the 1950s, medical mycology was a young discipline in Germany. He studied veterinary and human medicine, earning two doctorates. Initially fascinated by the changes in intestinal flora caused by the newly emerging broad‐spectrum antibacterials, i.e., the selection of fungi.
Barbara Buchberger, Volker Rickerts
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“The works themselves refute geographical separatism”: Exhibiting the Baroque in Cold War Britain [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2016
This article examines the collaborative exhibition Baroque in Bohemia (1969) to analyse the significance of the baroque style in Cold War cultural diplomacy between Britain and Czechoslovakia.
Verity Clarkson
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Aux origines du « baroque littéraire » en France : 1935-1950. Aperçus historiographiques

Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2012
French academic research has always been reluctant to use the notion of baroque to typify the literary production of the period between the end of Renaissance and the beginnings of classicism. It is not before the opening of the fifties and the impact of
Guy Catusse
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Becoming Space in Every Direction: Birdman as Post-cinematic Baroque

Cinéma & Cie, 2016
While the post-cinematic is typically understood as the passing of film-as-celluloid, the digital expressivity of film need not involve the loss of materiality.
Saige Walton
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