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Covering literature, film, interior design, architecture, photography, fashion, ballet, and flower arranging, Baroque between the Wars offers a new take on modernism that explores how baroque offered a whole new way of being modern.
List of contents
- The In Between Time
- I: Society
- 1: Climbing
- 2: Hiding in Plain Sight
- 3: Sitwell Style
- II: The City
- 4: Modern Times
- 5: Streams Of Consciousness
- 6: Machines To Live In
- III: Rooms
- 7: Outdoor Rooms
- 8: Chinese Wallpaper
- 9: Whiteness
- 10: White and Gold
- 11: Rococo Arcadia
- IV: Uncanonical Arts
- 12: Silver Paper
- 13: Self Fashioning
- 14: Masks
- 15: Four Dozen White Lilies
- 16: Flowers in the Abstract
- 17: The Ghost of a Rose
- Epilogue
About the author
Jane Stevenson studied at the University of Cambridge, and subsequently taught at the Universities of Sheffield and Warwick before moving to Aberdeen, where she was Regius Professor of Humanity. Jane Stevenson is now Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall at the University of Oxford. Her works include studies of women's writing in Latin, early modern women poets, a biography of the painter Edward Burra, and six novels.
Summary
Covering literature, film, interior design, architecture, photography, fashion, ballet, and flower arranging, Baroque between the Wars offers a new take on modernism that explores how baroque offered a whole new way of being modern.
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With the scholarship, humanity, and wit that made her Edward Burra biography so outstanding, Jane Stevenson presents a shimmering bouquet of connected essays, animating the ghosts of early twentieth-century fashion and frolic, that propose a serious alternative to modernism.
