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Baroque between the Wars is a fascinating and new account of the arts in the twenties and thirties. We often think of this time as being dominated by modernism, yet the period saw a dialogue between modern baroque--eclectic, playful, camp, open to influence from popular culture yet in dialogue with the past, and unafraid of the grotesque or surreal--and modernism, which was theory-driven, didactic, exclusive, and essentially neo-classical.

Jane Stevenson argues that both baroque and classical forms were equally valid responses to the challenge of modernity, by setting painting and literature in the context of 'minor arts' such as interior design, photography, fashion, ballet, and flower arranging, and by highlighting the social context and sexual politics of creative production.

Accessibly written and generously illustrated, the volume focuses on artists, artefacts, clients, places, and publicists to demonstrate how baroque offered a whole way of being modern which was actively subversive of the tenets of modernism and practised by the people modernism habitually defined as not worth listening to, particularly women and homosexuals.

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  • Title Baroque Between the Wars: Alternative Style in the Arts, 1918-1939
  • Author Jane Stevenson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 332
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 2018-03-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780198808770 / 0198808771
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Art, Modern - 20th century - Themes, motives, Modernism (Aesthetics)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017940332
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.042

About the author

Jane Stevenson was born in 1959 and mostly brought up in London. She 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.

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