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| SKU | 9780714838601 |
|---|---|
| Title | Baroque Baroque |
| Author Description | Stephen Calloway |
| Uri | store/decorative-arts/baroque-baroque-9780714838601/ |
| Web Author Description | 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. |
| webLongDescription | 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. |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Size | Size: 290 x 250 mm (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in) |
| Pages | Pages: 240 |
| Illustrations | 162 |
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