"Post-Baroque" signals that we have come through the malaise of recontextualization brought about by enlightenment; we have surpassed the rudderless hysteria left in its wake. Our response to the rabid excess of this period is an institution of rigour and deliberation. The severity of this approach does not lead to sparsity, however, for our reaction is not the simplistic establishment of an antipode to the floridty of the late unpleasantness; in fact, we still carry its traces, its scars, its genes, in the work, which is left stark, yet not bare — like the words of Abraham Lincoln, "with the bark on."
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