The Universal Baroque (Paperback)

'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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2007
Authors:	Peter Davidson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-2693-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > Baroque art Promotions
LSN:	1-5261-2693-1
Barcode:	9781526126931

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