The Universal Baroque Paperback / softback
by Peter Davidson
Paperback / softback
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‘The nation-state is the enemy of the baroque.’ This is the point of departure of this radical, even revolutionary, re-examination of the cultural history of the early-modern world.
Drawing on sources in six languages, many of them hitherto unavailable to the English-speaking reader, and touching on the visual arts, architecture, music and literature, this study frees the word ‘baroque’ from being a term of periodisation into being the descriptor for a network of circulation of ideas, words, plants, arts and energies which encompassed the totality of the early-modern world. This challenging book also forces a reconsideration of many of the prejudices of the Anglophone perception of cultural history and in doing so opens to the reader a world of wonders: the allegorical dramas of Ireland and Belgrade; the arquebusier angels of Cuzco painting; the operas and festival music of Bolivia; the vertiginous architectural fantasies of the Jacobite exiles. -- .
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 4 colour illustrations, 18 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:08/06/2018
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- ISBN:9781526126931
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- Hardback from £46.15
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 4 colour illustrations, 18 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:08/06/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526126931