by Omar Calabrese · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788842028871
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«L'età neobarocca» is the essay by Italian philosopher Omar Calabrese, published by Laterza in 1987 (213 pages, in Italian).
The essay starts from the reflection on how the historical Baroque reappears transformed in twentieth-century culture. Calabrese analyses the taste for the ornamental, the complex, the unstable and the theatrical in architecture, design, literature and film, and proposes a new look at the dialogue between tradition and the present.
First edition; part of the Sagittari Laterza collection (no. 8) and includes bibliographical references.
For students and scholars of philosophy and modern art, and for those seeking an erudite reading on twentieth-century aesthetic thought.
