Leigh Bowery

Name: Leigh Bowery
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SKU: 9781849769587
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A towering and luminous monograph on the boundary-pushing career of artist, performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer, and musician, Leigh Bowery. Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) used performance to explore questions around the politics of the body and its use as both material and a site... Read More

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A towering and luminous monograph on the boundary-pushing career of artist, performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer, and musician, Leigh Bowery.

Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) 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.

Published to accompany a major exhibition, Leigh Bowery features over two hundred images by and of the artist—spanning an eclectic and dynamic career that 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 and is published here for the first time.

Tate Modern exhibition: 27 February - 2 September 2025

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849769587

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 February 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Tate Publishing

Contributors:

Edited by Fiontán Moran
Contributions by Michael Clark
With Nicola Rainbird
With Gregor Muir
With Catherine Wood
With Jessica Baxter
With McKenzie Wark
With Hamish Bowles
With Sue Tilley
With Margery King
Contributions by Fergus Greer
Contributions by Ron Athey
Contributions by Hamish Bowles
Contributions by Les Child
Contributions by Margery King
Contributions by Jess Baxter
Contributions by Marina Abramovic

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 350.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Fiontán Moran is Curator, International Art at Tate Modern. Jess Baxter is Assistant Curator of International Art at Tate Modern. Hamish Bowles is the International editor-at-large for American Vogue. Catherine Wood is Director of Programme at Tate Modern, and curator of contemporary art and performance. At Tate she has co-curated numerous exhibitions including The World as a Stage (2007), Pop Life (2010) and A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance (2012), as well as co-directing the opening programme for the Tate Tanks in 2012 titled, Art in Action. She has programmed numerous performance works at Tate since 2003, including works by Mark Leckey, Joan Jonas, Guy de Cointet, Jiri Kovanda and Sturtevant, and initiated the online project, Performance Room in 2011. Wood is author of Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle (2007, Afterall/MIT Press). A regular contributor to Afterall, Artforum and Mousse magazines, she has also written numerous catalogue essays, recently on Joachim Koester, Piotr Uklanski and Sung Hwan Kim.