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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Multi language including English. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Baroque fold unfurls all the way to infinity. This characteristic can nonetheless be found in all three objects: In the glass pyramid this definition in the form of a Latinized and abbreviated >>ad infini- tume winds its way through the interior in luminous – naturally-Latin script. In the form of the floating snake the sentence in extenso radiates into the hatl as Morse code. The rollercoaster finally forms a complex system of line- ar relationships and reflections: Deleuze’s quote has been folded in such a way that each ?r? effects a turn to the right each ?l a turn to the left in the neon tube with the text as such represented only by the varying lengths bet- ween the transition points (although in the Baroque it is never about an ex- terior representation but rather a representation as creation a Real Pres- ence as theologically manifested through the Council of Trent and the De- cree on the Most Holy Eucharists of 1551. The departure from representation as depiction forms one of the bridges to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze who from his earliest writings on wanted to revolutionize thinking in the same way that abstract painting had revolutionized art. As a result in his examination of Leibniz he also comes to classify the paintings of Jackson Pollock as Baroque: non-representational folds. A continuation of this shift away from the canvas from panel painting can be found in the luminous coils by Brigitte Kowanz. (LL)