Baroque baroque : the culture of excess
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Baroque baroque : the culture of excess
Phaidon Press, 2000, c1994
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Originally published in hardback in 1994
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 Bunuel, 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.
Table of Contents
- 1900-1920s - fantasy and excess
- the 1930s: Neo-Baroque and fantasy
- the 1940s - wartime Romanticism - pleasing decay and the Baroque image
- the 1950s - romantic Baroque
- the 1960s and 1970s - Baroque in its nadir
- the 1980s - Baroque Baroque Revival.
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