Baroque baroque : the culture of excess

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Baroque baroque : the culture of excess

Stephen Calloway

Phaidon Press, 2000, c1994

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Originally published in hardback in 1994

Includes index

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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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