Baroque Baroque: The Culture of Excess
by Calloway, Stephen
First edition
Price: $65.00
- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 252
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0714829854
- ISBN 13: 9780714829852
- Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.
- Place: London
- Date published: November 17, 1994
- Pages: 239
- Size: 10.25 x 12 x 1.25 inches
- Weight: 4.1 pounds
Book Description
London: Phaidon Press Inc., November 17, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright and apparently unread. DJ has very minor shelf wear. 240pp. 1.29 x 11.80 x 10.24 Inscribed by author to friend. Author was curator of paintings at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. In defining the new Baroque as Baroque Baroque, Stephen Calloway explores the extravagance of the culture it has created and the eccentric, opulent and entertaining characters who adhere to its precepts in the arts, entertainment, media and fashion.
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