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What is the Baroque? Where did it come from and where did it go? Why do we have to ask these questions? Because art historians seem largely satisfied with their answers and most scholars of German literature are not satisfied, yet have stopped asking. This book discerns in the Baroque an aesthetic phenomenon that crosses both media and national boundaries in its celebration of excess and its disintegration of system, unity, and identity. The compositional principles and theoretical implications
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- Author
- Peter J. Burgard
- Publisher
- Brill | Fink. ein Imprint der Brill Deutschland GmbH
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783770564002
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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