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239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 36 cm
Leigh Bowery used performance to explore questions around the politics of the body and its use as both material and a site of transformation. He was also fascinated by the subversive potential of costume as sculpture. .. [F]eatures over two hundred images by and of the artist - spanning a ... career which included fashion photography, club polaroids, film stills, paintings, postcards, and ephemera. In addition to Bowery's own works, the book also includes paintings of the artist by Lucian Freud and works made with and about Bowery by Stephen Willats and Trojan Barnes, among others. A visual inventory of all of Bowery's costumes, held by the artist's estate, has been newly photographed - published here for the first time.
Inverse reverse perverse / Fiontán Moran -- God bless you Liesl, from Spritzer / Cerith Wyn Evans -- Some notes on development of 'What is he trying to get at? Where is he trying to go?' / Stephen Willats -- Leigh Bowery fashions his image (and others follow) / Hamish Bowles -- Lipsmackinthirstquenchingeversillylovely Leigh / Rachel Auburn -- The evolution of taboo and Leigh - A personal view / Tony Gordon -- 'When in doubt, go out' / Princess Julia and Jeffrey Hinton -- We go round and round in the night and are consumed by fire / Jess Baxter -- Mysterious ways / John Maybury -- Beauty magic: Leigh Bowery's living art / Catherine Wood -- Give gorge, get gorge / Les Child aka Leslie Bryant -- All the world was his stage / Sue Tilley -- What would Leigh do? / Baillie Walsh -- A self turned inside out / McKenzie Wark -- Shooting Leigh Bowery / Fergus Greer -- Leigh Bowery's merkin: tucking, masking and poncing / Ron Athey -- Jeffrey Gibson and Leigh Bowery / Jeffrey Gibson interviewed by Margery King -- MA on LB / Marina Abramović -- Reflections! / Nicola Rainbird -- Outré: the birthing performances of Leigh Bowery / Gregor Muir -- The Bowery effect / Richard Torry -- At home with Leigh / Prem Sahib -- L B (double you) / Michael Clark.
edited by Fiontán Moran ; with contributions by Marina Abramović [and 23 others].
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, 27 February to 31 August 2025.