Baroque Baroque: The Culture Of Excess; Author: Calloway, Stephen; Hardback; Book

Author: Calloway, Stephen
Hardback; Book; 150 Colour and 100 B&w Illustrations, Index, Bibli
239 pages
Published: November 1994
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714829854

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 decoration: all feature in Stephen Calloway's consideration 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 or film-makers such as Fellini and Jarman. Tracing the Baroque tendency into the 1990s, he shows how ideas havecross-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 booThis extraordinary book examines the culture of excess in all its twentieth-century manifestations. A sweep through the colourful, the opulent and the theatrical, it encompasses fashion, film, photography, design and decoration.An examination of the culture of excess in all its 20th-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration all feature in this sweep through the colourful, the opulent and the theatrical.