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

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Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1849760926
9781849760928

Subject(s):

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions

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

Includes bibliographical references.

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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