Main entry:

Calabrese, Omar.

Title & Author:

Neo-Baroque : a sign of the times / Omar Calabrese ; translated by Charles Lambert ; with a foreword by Umberto Eco.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1992.

Description:

xiv, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Translation of: L'età neobarocca.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-222) and index.
Ch. 1. Taste and Method -- Ch. 2. Rhythm and Repetition -- Ch. 3. Limit and Excess -- Ch. 4. Detail and Fragment -- Ch. 5. Instability and Metamorphosis -- Ch. 6. Disorder and Chaos -- Ch. 7. Knot and the Labyrinth -- Ch. 8. Complexity and Dissipation -- Ch. 9. Approximate and the Inexpressible -- Ch. 10. Distortion and Perversion -- Ch. 11. Some Like It Classical.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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, polydimensionality, 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 hierarchies or ghettos among works, he takes his readers on a fast-paced expedition through contemporary culture that closes with an elegant essay on evaluation and classical form." "According to Calabrese, the enormous quantity of narrative now being produced has led to a new situation: everything has already been said, and everything has already been written. The only way of avoiding saturation has been to turn to a poetics of repetition. The author shows that pleasure in texts is now produced by tiny variations, and a certain kind of citation from other works has taken on a central importance that would have been unthinkable only a Few years ago. In describing this development, and others shared by both avant-garde and mass media, Calabrese makes us aware of the rapid shrinkage in the once ample space between "highbrow" and "lowbrow.""--Jacket.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0691031711 (acid-free paper)
9780691031712 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Arts, Modern 20th century Themes, motives.
Arts, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
CHR 1992
PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Arts 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
Arts 20e siècle Philosophie.
08.42 philosophy of culture.
Arts, Modern Philosophy
Arts, Modern Themes, motives
Kultursemiotik
Semiotiek.
Cultuurfilosofie.
Tijdsbeeld.
Art moderne 20e siècle.
Arts

Holdings:

Location: Library main 73765
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:92-B1822
Status: Available