Leigh Bowery: Performative Costuming and Live Art
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Leigh Bowery: Performative Costuming and Live Art is a critical exploration of the creative practice, social-historical context, and cultural impact of the late London-based artist Leigh Bowery.
The diversity of Bowery's work and his marginality as an artist who emerged during the 1980s from a subcultural milieu complicated and thwarted his cultural value, hindering his incorporation into art institutions and performance art narratives for some time. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and challenging research contexts, Sofia Vranou seeks to historicize Bowery's multifaceted body of work and critically situate it within the expanded fields of visual culture and performance studies.
Through close analysis of Bowery's key looks and non-theatrical performances, the book investigates the implications of his work in dominant histories of performance art and urgent discourses surrounding normativity, representations of illness, and identity politics. Thought-provoking and engaging, it focuses on Bowery's costuming as a performative strategy that effectively blurs the boundaries between art and life; delves into his aesthetics of freakishness and narcissistic desire, reflects on his involvement with BDSM practices and the performance of extremity, and unpacks the posttranssexual ethos behind his hybrid embeds and trans-queer visual language.
Sofia Vranou is an associate fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London. She has a background in art history and visual cultures, and a strong interest in live art, queer aesthetics, performative costuming, subcultural histories and marginal identities.
- Artist Leigh Bowery
- Dimensions 21 x 14.8 cm
- Author Sofia Vranou
- ISBN 9781835951231
- Paperback Yes
- Number of illustrations 49 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher Intellect
- No of pages 266
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UK – £5 per order
Rest of world ((excluding EU) – £28 per order
From 13 December 2024, we will be temporarily pausing shipping to the European Union and Northern Ireland, to update our details to comply with new EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). We will restart shipping to the EU and NI as soon as possible, thank you for your patience.
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