Review of "Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body" by Mark Franko
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Marūfī’s Paykar Farhād [Farhād’s Corpse]:
By baroque, one implies the “general attitude” and “the formal quality” of a work of art which is trans-historical and “radiates through” histories, cultures, and works of art. In that way, just a seventeenth-century work of art cannot be considered baroque; on the other hand, even a postmodern work can display “baroque” features. However, as a slave to its era, the baroque of 2oth and 21th cen...
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