{"product_id":"baroque-baroque-the-culture-of-excess-9780714829852","title":"Baroque Baroque: The Culture of Excess","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBaroque Baroque: The Culture of Excess\u003c\/strong\u003e by Calloway, Stephen. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780714829852.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the culture of excess in all its 20th-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: all feature in Stephen Calloways sweep through the colourful, the opulent and the theatrical. The author examines the early forays into the visual possibilities of Baroque excess - by the Sitwells, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean and others - as well as the emotionally darker investigation of the Baroque spirit by the wartime Neo-Romantics or film-makers such as Fellini and Jarman. Tracing the Baroque tendency into the 1990s, he demonstrates how ideas have cross-fertilized down the century, 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 taken from all areas of the arts and the media, this book provides a celebration that is truly Baroque in its richness and variety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Phaidon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986500775989,"sku":"ByrdShop_0714829854","price":132.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780714829852_c2868b85-3c38-4b91-bd6f-6ab01f06fdab.jpg?v=1778671591","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/baroque-baroque-the-culture-of-excess-9780714829852","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}