The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics - Hardcoverby William Egginton (Author) The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth century baroque and twentieth century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation of a cultural strategy produced as a response to a specific problem of thought that has beset Europe and the colonial world