Leigh Bowery

1998, the Violette Editions monograph

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Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback, illustrated cloth boards. 29.5 × 25.5cm, 227pp

This highly illustrated book is the first and only complete monograph on the artist and includes previously unpublished photographs and ephemera from Bowery's personal archive. It documents his life and work from his arrival in London in 1980 from Sunshine, Australia, through his collaborations with the dancer Michael Clark, his proprietorship of the infamous 1980s nightclub Taboo, his outrageous performances in New York, London and Tokyo, to his formation of the pop group Minty and in the 1990s his most famous incarnation as muse for the painter Lucian Freud, whose portraits of Bowery hang in the Tate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other museums around the world.

The book is profusely illustrated with colour photographs and paintings, with contributions by Nicola Bowery, Tom Bowery, Cerith Wyn Evans, Charles Atlas, Lucian Freud, Bruce Bernard, Michael Clark, Nick Knight, Rifat Ozbek, Fergus Greer, Sue Tilley, Richard Torry, John Maybury, Annie Leibovitz and others, as well as Leigh Bowery himself.

Condition

Good condition only. The cloth binding has some surface marking and a light stain over the forehead of the face to the front cover, board's edges a little rubbed. Previous owner's witty inscription to front pastedown. However, the book is complete and in strong readable condition.

ISBN

9781900828048