Leigh Bowery by Violette Robert (11 results)

Hardcover with dustjacket; 176 pages, very good except light rubbing to dj; gift inscription on first page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in fine condition. DJ in near fine condition and in protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This book is the definitive and indispensable guide to the unique looks designed and, in these photographs, worn by Leigh Bowery. One of Britain's most heroically ambitious yet underappreciated designers and performance artists, Bowery remains an inspiration to many contemporary fashion designers, though few are willing to admit it. In Leigh Bowery Looks you can see why: it contains more than 300 previously unpublished photographs of Bowery, an extraordinary body of work that was the outcome of his collaboration with British photographer Fergus Greer between 1988 and 1994, the year of Bowery's death. Leigh Bowery was a performance artist, fashion designer, night-club sensation, art object, aspiring pop-star and, above all, an icon whose influence traversed the music, art, film and fashion worlds. Perhaps he is best-known for his role as the muse and nude model for some of Lucian Freud's most famous paintings; ironic for the man who was infamous for his costumes. Bowery arrived in London in 1980 from Sunshine, Australia, collaborated notoriously with the dancer Michael Clark, was proprietor of the infamous 1980s nightclub Taboo. In the 1990s, Leigh Bowery created performances which both delighted and outraged audiences in New York, London and Tokyo, later incorporating his pop group Minty. A shimmering if tiny tome as homage to the muse of Lucien Freud. Above all the photographs elevate the camp and kitsch beyond Divine and new wave shock into a vision of how modern celebrities would be defined. Topping out bad taste is suddenly quite an incisive view of the future. Really great images especially the monochrome plates.…

Hardcover. 4to. Pp: 240. First Edition, no dust jacket as issued. Publisher's original red and white boards, with large colour illustration at front and black lettering at spine. Illustrated throughout with both black and white and colour photography. ISBN: 1900828049 Very good. Lettering of front board is somewhat rubbed and boards are also very lightly toned, as are edgrs of pages. Book is also very slightly cocked. Some small marks to spine. Contents are clean and sound otherwise.…

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 242 pages, very good except spine slightly shaken and light rubbing to covers with wear to title letters; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Violette Editions, London, 1998. FINE Hardcover in cloth-covered, pictorial boards, as issued. First Edition. First Printing. Afterword by Boy George. Previous owner's artistic embossed stamp at bottom of front free end paper, otherwise as new.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: very_good. This book is in Very good condition. There may be a few flaws like shelf wear and some light wear.

Cloth over Board. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some light wear, staining on spine, spine is cocked forward slightly. Text is clean and tight in binding. Due to size, this book will require additional shipping outside the U.S. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The first major book on this great artist celebrated currently in a major exhibition at Tate Modern published in 1998 by Violette Editions. This copy is mint and still in its shrinkwrapping, direct from the archive of the original publisher. Very few copies left. Any appraisal of Leigh as a performer tends to involve words like punk, kink, drag, camp, schlock. To my mind he transcends those concepts. Thanks to his twisted imagination and wit, he was able to soar above modish trashiness and establish himself as a subversive artist. John Richardson, The New Yorker Texts, interviews, photographs and other contributions by Leigh Bowery, Nicola Bowery, Tom Bowery, Cerith Wyn Evans, Charles Atlas, Lucian Freud, Bruce Bernard, Michael Clark, Nick Knight, Rifat Ozbek, Fergus Greer, Sue Tilley, Richard Torry, John Maybury, Annie Leibovitz and others. Leigh Bowery (1961 94) was a performance artist, fashion designer, nightclub sensation, art object, trained pianist, aspiring pop-star and above all an icon whose influence traversed the music, art, film and fashion worlds. Perhaps his best-known role was as the nude model for some of Lucian Freud's most famous and powerful paintings ironic for the man whose costumes were legendary and which famously frightened taxi drivers, persuaded Japanese tourists to queue for hours and inspired fashion gurus from Vivienne Westwood to John Galliano. This highly illustrated book is the first and only complete monograph on the artist and includes previously unpublished photographs and ephemera from Bowery's personal archive. It documents his life and work from his arrival in London in 1980 from Sunshine, Australia, through his collaborations with the dancer Michael Clark, his proprietorship of the infamous 1980s nightclub Taboo, his outrageous performances in New York, London and Tokyo, to his formation of the pop group Minty and in the 1990s his most famous incarnation as muse for the painter Lucian Freud, whose portraits of Bowery hang in the Tate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other museums around the world. Hilton Als, a staff writer and theatre critic for The New Yorker, also writes for American Vogue and Artforum and is the author of The Women (1997). He is a Guggenheim Fellow and in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In addition to his writing and academic roles, such as his position as inaugural Presidential Visiting Scholar at Princeton University in 2020, Als has also curated exhibitions by Alice Neel, Celia Paul and the group show Forces of Nature. Introduction by Hilton Als, afterword by Boy George Edited and produced by Robert Violette Designed by Alan Aboud Printed cloth binding, 240 pages Over 300 colour illustrations 35 x 33.3 cm (13 ¾ x 13 in, h x w) ISBN: 978-1-900828-04-9.…