Baroque baroque : the culture of excess / Stephen Calloway
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Phaidon Press, 1994Description: 239 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714838608 (paperback)Subject(s): Decoration and ornament, Baroque | Decorative arts, Baroque | Decorative arts, Baroque -- History -- 20th centuryLOC classification: NX456 .C35 1994Subject: 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. https://www.amazon.com/Baroque-Stephen-Calloway/dp/0714838608
| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Books | MEF Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi | Genel Koleksiyon | NX 456 .C35 1994 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0020218 |
Originally published: 1998
"For Oriel"
Includes index (pages 236-239).
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Baroque-Stephen-Calloway/dp/0714838608