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Neo-Baroque: A Sign of the Times
By (Author) Omar Calabrese
Translated by Charles Lambert
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
30th May 2017
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
700.904
Hardback
252
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
510g
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