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theatricality, dramatization, moment, and event
231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
In the Dutch Republic, in its Baroque forms of art, two aesthetic formal modes, theater and drama, were dynamically related to two political concepts, event and moment. The Dutch version of the Baroque is characterized by a fascination with this world regarded as one possibility out of a plurality of potential worlds. It is this fascination that explains the coincidence in the Dutch Republic, strange at first sight, of Baroque exuberance, irregularity, paradox and vertigo with scientific rigor, regularity, mathematical logic and rational distance. In giving a new historical perspective on the Baroque as a specifically Dutch republican one, this study also offers a new and systematic approach towards the interactions among the notions of theatricality, dramatization, moment and event, concepts that are currently at the center of philosophical and political debates but the modern articulation of which can best be considered in the explorations of history and world in the Dutch Republic.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-217) and indexes.
Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age