Book Description
Documents the life of Australian performance artist, fashion designer, and entertainer Leigh Bowery. Over 300 col. photos. Quarto.
Author : Leigh Bowery
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Artists
ISBN :
Documents the life of Australian performance artist, fashion designer, and entertainer Leigh Bowery. Over 300 col. photos. Quarto.
Author : Sue Tilley
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 1997
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9780340693100
Author : Francesca Granata
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1786720299
Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.
Author : Rachel Kent
Publisher : Museum of Contemporary Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art, Japanese
ISBN : 9781921034862
Tatsuo Miyajima is one of Japan's leading contemporary artists, known for his immersive and technologically-driven sculptures and installations. This exhibition will be his first major survey exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere, encompassing key works from the beginnings of his career to the present. Central to his practice are numerical counters that count from 1 to 9 repeatedly using light-emitting diodes (LEDs), then go dark momentarily. For Miyajima, the cyclical repetition of numbers, along with the shift from light to dark, reflect the importance of time. He draws inspiration from Buddhist philosophy, with its exploration of mortality and human cycles of death and renewal.
Author : Leigh Bowery
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Dominic Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137322225
Across a series of 12 in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. From uses of body modification and physical extremity, to the creation of all-encompassing personae, to performance pieces lasting months or years, these artists have provoked and explored the vital limits between art and life. Their discussions with Johnson give us a glimpse of their artistic motivations, preoccupations, processes, and contexts. Despite the diversity of art forms and experiences featured, common threads weave between the interviews: love, friendship, commitment, death and survival. Each interview is preceded by an overview of the artist's work, and the volume itself is introduced by a thoughtful critical essay on performance art and oral history. The conversational tone of the interviews renders complex ideas and theoretical propositions accessible, making this an ideal book for students of theatre and performance, as well as for artists, scholars and general readers.
Author : Jill Berk Jiminez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135959218
The first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a brief biography, selected works in which the model appears (with location), a list of further reading. This will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2002-10-29
Category :
ISBN :
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Author : Michael Auping
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 084786684X
Intimate portraits from one of the most innovative figurative artists of the twentieth century and the master of painted flesh. Curated by the artist's longtime studio assistant and friend, David Dawson, this important volume features twenty major and rarely seen paintings by Lucian Freud (1922-2011). The book begins with works from 1990, when Freud began painting the performance artist Leigh Bowery: these large-scale portraits of Bowery ushered in a new sense of monumentality in the artist's oeuvre. Inspired by Bowery's impressive physique, Freud began working on a larger scale, which emphasized the physical presence of his subjects. Despite their grand scale, Freud's subjects are still depicted with a sense of intimacy, penetrating honesty, and psychological depth. The naked body is a subject that has special significance in Freud's oeuvre. Nakedness was a way for Freud to get a more truthful portrait. Freud's probing oils get fresh consideration in this monograph and Dawson provides insights and stories about Freud working on these portraits, giving an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the life of a contemporary master of representational art.
Author : Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 9783868289220
A monograph comprising 50 years of works by the acclaimed Finnish-American photographer, this edition includes many never-before-published works.