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Softcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> By the middle of the nineteenth century, the art of stage d?cor, having begun to concern itself entirely with History, n'a plus d'histoire. In other words archaeological pedantry had killed fantasy and the artist was no longer able to impose upon his recalci-trant materials, too well known both to himself and his audience, the imprint of his personal style, or, indeed, of any style at all. In the Age of Bocquet, as in the Age of B?rain, things were different. Artist and audience were alike unhampered by the researches of the historical costume experts. They knew that Turks wore turbans and that Chinamen had funny hats; they fondly imagined that slashed sleeves and trunk hose were medieval properties, and they had a vague notion of the dress of Ancient Rome. On these themes they could play their infinite variations of baroque and rococo, telescoping Time in the curl of a plumed head-dress and concentrating a hemisphere to a motif of chinoiserie. Yet the pedantic nineteenth century, while it broke u.…