Baroque Baroque: The Culture of Excess

By Stephen Calloway

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714838608
• ISBN13: 9780714838601
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.8" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary