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Neo-Baroque: A Sign of the Times
Omar Calabrese
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Description for Neo-Baroque: A Sign of the Times
Paperback. Translator(s): Lambert, Charles. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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, and architectural forms, from the Venice Biennale through the new science to television series, video games, and zapping with the remote control device from channel to channel! Calabrese admits that he begins the book with a refusal to distinguish between Donald Duck and Dante. Avoiding ... Read more
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, and architectural forms, from the Venice Biennale through the new science to television series, video games, and zapping with the remote control device from channel to channel! Calabrese admits that he begins the book with a refusal to distinguish between Donald Duck and Dante. Avoiding ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691607139
SKU
V9780691607139
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