Baroque Baroque

This book examines the culture of excess in all its 20th-centuryanifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: alleature in Stephen Calloway's sweep through the colourful, the opulent andhe theatrical. The author examines the early forays into the visualossibilities of Baroque excess - by the Sitwells, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBeannd others - as well as the emotionally darker investigation of the Baroquepirit by the wartime Neo-Romantics or film-makers such as Fellini and Jarman.racing the Baroque tendency into the 1990s, he demonstrates how ideas haveross-fertilized down the century, providing links between such unlikelyedfellows as Leon Bakst and Luis Bunuel, Coco Chanel and Nigel Coates,iberace and Lacroix. Illustrated with a wealth of photographs taken from allreas of the arts and the media, this book provides a celebration that isruly Baroque in its richness and variety.