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By William Egginton

The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics must be understood as a part of an identical complicated. The Neobaroque, instead of being a go back to the stylistic practices of a specific time and position, can be defined because the continuation of a cultural procedure produced as a reaction to a selected challenge of idea that has beset Europe and the colonial international considering early modernity. This challenge, in its easiest philosophical shape, matters the paradoxical relation among appearances and what they symbolize. Egginton explores expressions of this challenge within the paintings and literature of the Hispanic Baroques, new and previous. He exhibits how the innovations of those Baroques emerged within the political and social international of the Spanish Empire, and the way they remain deployed within the cultural politics of the current. additional, he deals a unified thought for the relation among the 2 Baroques and a brand new vocabulary for distinguishing among their ideological values.

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