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The palace of oblivion
Davidson, Peter, 1957-Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 2008.Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, Peter Davidson's collection is a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It moves between languages and continents, English and Latin, the Spanish Netherlands and Spanish America, the Mediterranean and the north. The title sequence evokes a half-known, half-fantastic, seventeenth century; a shorter sequence transforms contemporary England through the eyes of a spy. The collection ends with a group of elegies and epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland. Erudite and witty, "The Palace of Oblivion" is about remembering and inventing out of memory, and provides haunting visions of decay and splendor.
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The universal Baroque
Davidson, Peter, 1957-Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.This book examines the notion of the concept of the 'baroque', seeing it as the descriptor for a network of circulation of ideas, words, plants, arts and energies which encompassed the globe. It is hugely erudite study, based on texts from six different languages, many of which have not been examined in the English-speaking world before. It uses examples from the visual arts, architecture, music and literature. It provides a radical, even revolutionary examination of the cultural history of the early-modern world. It opens out the study of the early-modern world from the usual 'Western' subjects into a truly global phenomenon.
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The last of the light : about twilight
Davidson, Peter, 1957-London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015.The Last of the Light is a meditation on twilight in the Western arts and imagination, in thought, painting and literature. We entera multifaceted twilight world, filled with the gloom haunted by Romantic poets and painters and the twilight lives of minority and 'overshadowed' communities. The melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings is balanced by the midnight sun of northern European summers; the oppressive heat of August in mid-twentieth-century Spain is ranged against the shadowy grandeur of winter in London.Peter Davidson touches on diverse literary and artistic traditions as he considers the borderlands of the light and the dark: the'invention of evening' in Roman antiquity; the science of the Victorian evening sky; the urban twilights of Whistler, Poussinand Tiepolo.A meditative account of the atmospheric and shadowy in art, literature and thought by the author of The Idea of North, this will appeal to all those who are interested in ambiguous, penumbral zones in art, philosophy and writing.
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