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Neo-Baroque: A Sign of the Times
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Full Title:
Neo-Baroque: A Sign of the Times
Contributors:
By (Author) Omar Calabrese
Translated by Charles Lambert
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
30th May 2017
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
700.904
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
252
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
340g
Description
A leading young Italian semiologist scrutinizes today's cultural phenomena and finds the prevailing taste to be "neo-baroque"--characterized by an appetite for virtuosity, frantic rhythms, instability, poly-dimensionality, and change. Omar Calabrese locates a "sign of the times" in an amazing variety of literary, philosophical, artistic, musical, a
