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Baroque
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She was crazy: a word Dawn had lost the habit of using as a result of hanging around with educated persons elevated through study of Freudian psychoanalysis. But it was a fine word in places like this, where—never mind what Freud might say—people, especially ones who’d found a way of getting a little bit of power, could simply go off the rails and wander off into a shadow world that was half made up, and half misseen through baroque systems of delusion. She was crazy. Crazy, and probably on drug
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― Polostan
― Polostan
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In a conservative courtly culture an artist of his (Rembrandt's) kind would perhaps never made a name for himself at all, but, once recognized, he would probably have been able to hold his own better than in liberal middle-class Holland, where he was allowed to develop in freedom, but which broke him when he refused to submit any longer. The spiritual existence of the artist is always in danger; neither an authoritarian nor a liberal order of society is entirely free from peril for him; the one
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― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
