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Baroque Baroque : The Culture of Excess

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Overview

Now available for the first time in paperback, this extraordinary book examines the 'culture of excess' in all its twentieth-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and interior decoration - all feature in Stephen Calloway's meticulous coverage of the colourful, the opulent and the theatrical. The author examines early examples of Baroque excess - by the Sitwells, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean and others - as well as the darker Baroque spirit of the wartime Neo-Romantics and film-makers such as Fellini and Jarman. Tracing the Baroque tendency all the way into the 1990s, he shows how ideas have been cross-fertilized, providing links between such unlikely bedfellows as Leon Bakst and Luis Bu uel, Coco Chanel and Nigel Coates, Liberace and Lacroix. Illustrated with a wealth of photographs, this book provides a celebration that is truly Baroque in substance and in spirit.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780714838601
  • ISBN-10: 0714838608
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press
  • Publish Date: February 2000
  • Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.8 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
  • Page Count: 240

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