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Description |
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 have 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. |
