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THE BLITZ KIDS

A biography of Leigh Bowery, the performance artist, club owner and model to Lucian Freud, which details his dramatic impact on the overlapping worlds of dance, clubbing, fashion, art and music Leigh Bowery - The Life And Times Of An Icon, by Sue Tilley (Hodder & Stoughton, 1997, ISBN 0 340 69310 X). One of Leigh's best friends, Sue Tilley has created what the book jacket accurately describes as a "very funny, frank and sometimes sad biography". It contains several black-and-white photographs, including one of the Minty performance at The Fete Worse Than Death in London in 1994

The Life and Times of an Icon   by Sue Tilley

A fitting tribute to the legacy of Leigh Bowery (1959-1994), fashion designer and expert tailor, night-club sensation, art object, trained pianist, and aspiring pop-star. 100 color photos & 100 duotones. since mid 80s i have been a big admirer of Bowery..he was always the most brilliant thing in FACE or ID magazine. This book is everything one needs to know and have about him. Must for disco historians ! Beautiful job from start to finish. Highlights include the collages of stills from the films of Charles Atlas, the interview with Nicola Bateman, and Leigh's tres sexy postcards. Comprehensive, revealing the many layers of his greatness, and ever-reminding us of our miserable loss. Special man. Special book. i will forever be inspired by the delicious pages in this picture book that could change your life

Leigh Bowery by Robert Violette

Book Description Interview with the artist by Leigh Bowery. Essay by Angus Cook. 22 plates Freud was born in Berlin in December 1922, and came to England with his family in 1933. He studied briefly at the Central School of Art in London and, to more effect, at Cedric Morris's East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham. Following this, he served as a merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941. His first solo exhibition, in 1944 at the Lefevre Gallery, featured the now celebrated The Painter's Room 1944. In the summer of 1946, he went to Paris before going on to Greece for several months. Since then he has lived and worked in London. His work takes account of recent environmental debates in an indirect way, without preaching, by encouraging us to reconsider our personal relationships with nature.

Lucian Freud: Recent Drawings and Etchings

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. Leigh Bowery has already been the subject of a monograph previously published by Violette Editions and of a biography by author Sue Tilley. A feature film based on Sue Tilley's book is now in production, as is a documentary by New York film director Charles Atlas

Leigh Bowery Looks Fergus Greer

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