Glam : the performance of style /
[edited by Darren Pih].
- [160] pages : illustrations (cheifly colour) ; 24 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Liverpool, 8 February to 12 May 2013.
Includes bibliographical references.
The politics of artifice / For your pleasure: the quest for glamour in British fashion 1969-1972 / Cross Gender / Cross Genre / The rift to retro: 1962? Or twenty years on? / Rocking while Rome burns: the politics of glam / Bang the whole gang / Crocodile tears: a counter-archive of glam aesthetics / Richard Hamilton: art, style, personae and new aesthetics / The birth of glitter rock / After transformer / Darren Pih -- Judith Watt -- Mike Kelley -- Simon Reynolds -- Alwyn W. Turner -- Neil Mulholland -- Dominic Johnson -- Michael Bracewell -- Glenn O'Brien -- 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.