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Baroque Baroque
The Culture of Excess
An examination and celebration of the Baroque culture of excess.
Stephen Calloway
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prix: USD$39.95
- Spotlights Baroque style in all its 20th-century manifestations: fashion, film, photography, design and interior decoration
- Traces the origins of the Baroque 'revival' that evolved as a rebellion against the sterilities of Modernism, and that thrives today as a colourful, opulent alternative to the minimalist aesthetic
- Charts the achievements of figures as diverse as the Sitwells, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean, Coco Chanel and Fellini, and many other creative forces from the last 100 years
- Explores all facets of contemporary Baroque culture, from the extravagances of haute couture to the theatrical affectation of Hollywood to the fantastical whimsies of architecture and design
- Paperback
- English
- 290 x 250 mm, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in
- 240 pp
- 162 Illustrations couleur
- ISBN-13: 9780714838601
- ISBN-10: 0714838608
- 120 Images bichromes
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 Buñuel, 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.
'The most provocative and stimulating style book of the year.' (The New York Times)
'Baroque Baroque is a carefully written and wonderfully illustrated book ... it helps to define the notion of Englishness itself.' (The Times)
'The sort of book that could itself become a landmark in taste.' (Country Life)
Stephen Calloway is a writer, journalist, lecturer, designer and consultant on historic interiors. He was formerly Curator of Paintings at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.