Neo-Baroque: A Sign of the Times

by Omar Calabrese

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691031711
• ISBN13: 9780691031712
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"