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Book Synopsis
An examination and celebration of the Baroque culture of excess.

Trade Review

"The most provocative and stimulating style book of the year."—The New York Times

"Baroque Baroque is a carefully written and wonderfully illustrated book... It helps to define the notion of Englishness itself."—The Times

"The sort of book that could itself become a landmark in taste."—Country Life



Table of Contents
1900-1920s - fantasy and excess; the 1930s: Neo-Baroque and fantasy; the 1940s - wartime Romanticism - pleasing decay and the Baroque image; the 1950s - romantic Baroque; the 1960s and 1970s - Baroque in its nadir; the 1980s - Baroque Baroque Revival.

Baroque Baroque

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    A Paperback / softback by Stephen Calloway, Karen Fontanive

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      Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
      Publication Date: 03/02/2000
      ISBN13: 9780714838601, 978-0714838601
      ISBN10: 0714838608
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An examination and celebration of the Baroque culture of excess.

      Trade Review

      "The most provocative and stimulating style book of the year."—The New York Times

      "Baroque Baroque is a carefully written and wonderfully illustrated book... It helps to define the notion of Englishness itself."—The Times

      "The sort of book that could itself become a landmark in taste."—Country Life



      Table of Contents
      1900-1920s - fantasy and excess; the 1930s: Neo-Baroque and fantasy; the 1940s - wartime Romanticism - pleasing decay and the Baroque image; the 1950s - romantic Baroque; the 1960s and 1970s - Baroque in its nadir; the 1980s - Baroque Baroque Revival.

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