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Glam : the performance of style / [edited by Darren Pih].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albert Dock, Liverpool : Tate Liverpool, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: [160] pages : illustrations (cheifly colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1849760926
  • 9781849760928
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.04 23
LOC classification:
  • N6494.G65
Contents:
The politics of artifice / Darren Pih -- For your pleasure: the quest for glamour in British fashion 1969-1972 / Judith Watt -- Cross Gender / Cross Genre / Mike Kelley -- The rift to retro: 1962? Or twenty years on? / Simon Reynolds -- Rocking while Rome burns: the politics of glam / Alwyn W. Turner -- Bang the whole gang / Neil Mulholland -- Crocodile tears: a counter-archive of glam aesthetics / Dominic Johnson -- Richard Hamilton: art, style, personae and new aesthetics / Michael Bracewell -- The birth of glitter rock / Glenn O'Brien -- After transformer / Jean-Christophe Ammann -- Glam Timeline / Jonathan Harris and Barry Curtis -- Bibliography / Ron Moy.
Summary: Glam emerged in the early 1970s and remains one of the most instantly recognisable - but critically derided - stylistic phenomena of 20th century art and culture. This book is a prism through which to view and refract artistic developments in Europe and North America, shedding new ligh on the extravagance of art, performance and visual culture at this time.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 709.04 GLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A479834B

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Liverpool, 8 February to 12 May 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

The politics of artifice / Darren Pih -- For your pleasure: the quest for glamour in British fashion 1969-1972 / Judith Watt -- Cross Gender / Cross Genre / Mike Kelley -- The rift to retro: 1962? Or twenty years on? / Simon Reynolds -- Rocking while Rome burns: the politics of glam / Alwyn W. Turner -- Bang the whole gang / Neil Mulholland -- Crocodile tears: a counter-archive of glam aesthetics / Dominic Johnson -- Richard Hamilton: art, style, personae and new aesthetics / Michael Bracewell -- The birth of glitter rock / Glenn O'Brien -- After transformer / Jean-Christophe Ammann -- Glam Timeline / Jonathan Harris and Barry Curtis -- Bibliography / Ron Moy.

Glam emerged in the early 1970s and remains one of the most instantly recognisable - but critically derided - stylistic phenomena of 20th century art and culture. This book is a prism through which to view and refract artistic developments in Europe and North America, shedding new ligh on the extravagance of art, performance and visual culture at this time.

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