The Universal Baroque

by Peter Davidson

'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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526126931
• ISBN13: 9781526126931
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"