The Symbolic Forms of Baroque Architectures

WATANABE Sadakiyo

doi:10.20631/bigaku.27.2_51

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バロック建築の象徴形式
バロックケンチクノショウチョウケイシキ

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Baroque architectures have the most unique symbolic space which is related to human deep psychological qualities (fantasticality, irrationality, ambivalence, etc.) and the import of which is prescribed by the architectural symbolic forms. Accordingly, when we try to make the emotional shadows and deep twills of these forms clear, we cannot depend upon the classical concinnitas theory which obviously takes the idealistic position. We must cut into the enigma of creative acts and search for the ontological meaning of baroque architectures which existed to be lived in. Along this line we study eight singular symbolic forms successively ; inner spatialization of outer space ; articulation of perceptional phenomenon ; ambivalence ; inarticulation ; plasticity ; physiognomic quality ; contrapposti ; dynamic semblance.

Journal

Aesthetics

Aesthetics 27 (2), 51-68, 1976

The Japanese Society for Aesthetics