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Baroque as connection and rupture

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Baroque as connection and rupture
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School knowledge elevates the term "baroque" to the image of an "irregularly shaped pearl". This image is linked to the general emotional background of the era: a sense of inner tension "between fiery passion and rigid, cold control" seeking to break through.

Why did Shakespeare and John Donne speak of the destruction of all ties, while their younger contemporary Athanasius Kircher painted an explosive globe permeated by currents of inner fire? How does this relate to the twentieth-century formula of self-perception? How does the Baroque and its inherent confused scale of objects, mechanistic nature, connection of the incommunicable, and intrusion of the fantastic into reality relate to contemporary culture?

In his book Vladislav Degtyarev examines Baroque culture as a parallel and alternative to the futuristic twentieth century and shows how various Baroque intuitions remain frighteningly modern.
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