Glam: The Performance of Style

by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Michael Bracewell, and Dominic Johnson

Darren Pih (Editor) and Max Hollein (Editor)

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This is the first book to fully examine the serious cultural influence of one of the twentieth century's most excessive and exciting pop movements. Glam is held as a prism through which to view and refract artistic developments in Europe and North America, shedding new light on the extravagance of art, performance and visual culture at this time. Covering a range of subjects including fashion, music, film, gender in performance and postmodernism, the book moves beyond a nostalgic reception and reveals the under-acknowledged exchange between avant-garde art and the extravagant style. Tracing the Glam sensibility to performance and installation art, and to painting and sculpture, the book includes artworks from David Hockney and Richard Hamilton, as well as ephemera such as posters, magazines and photographs and the music of T.Rex, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Lou Reed.
  • ISBN10 3866788363
  • ISBN13 9783866788367
  • Publish Date 5 September 2013 (first published 18 April 2013)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country DE
  • Imprint Kerber Verlag
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 160
  • Language German