Leigh Bowery : Performative Costuming and Live Art
by
Sofia Vranou
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1835951139
ISBN-13
9781835951132
Publisher
Intellect
Imprint
Intellect Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 5th, 2025
Print length
266 Pages
Weight
546 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 22.00 x 2.70 cms
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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 embodiments and trans-queer visual language. Foreword by Boy George.
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