Glam. The Performance of Style. Edited by Darren Pih with assistance from Eleanor Clayton.

ISBN 10: 1849760926 / ISBN 13: 9781849760928

Published by London, Tate Publishing., 2013

About this Item

24 cm, 192 Seiten/pages. Mit Illustrationen/illustraated. Broschiert. Brochur. Noch original verpackt. Still in original packaging. Sprache: englisch.

Seller Inventory # 20868AB

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Glam. The Performance of Style. Edited by Darren Pih with assistance from Eleanor Clayton.
• Publisher: London, Tate Publishing.
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849760926
• ISBN 13: 9781849760928
• Binding: Soft cover
• Weight: 780 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kulturwissenschaften

About this title

Synopsis

Glam, an extravagant, futuristic pop style, emerged in the early 1970s and remains one of the most instantly recognizable but critically derided stylistic phenomena of 20th-century art and cultural history. Known mostly through the music of the era—T. Rex, David Bowie, Roxy Music, and Lou Reed—the style was also evident in other art forms through its acquaintance with theatrics, artifice, mysticism, and androgyny.
Published to accompany a major international exhibition, Glam moves beyond nostalgia to reveal the unique exchange between avant-garde art and the showy style. Featuring some 100 artworks, Glam explores key themes: glamour, camp, exaggerated identity, androgyny, eroticism, and dandyism, and showcases artists such as Lynda Benglis, Richard Hamilton, Sigmar Polke, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol, among others. An illustrated timeline features writings by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Michael Bracewell, Chrissie Iles, Dominic Johnson, Simon Reynolds, and Alwyn Turner. The book shows how glam impacted not only visual art, but also fashion, music, film, photography, gender in performance, and postmodernism.

About the Author

Darren Pih is a curator at Tate Liverpool.