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David Bowie is the subject / [editors, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh].

Title
David Bowie is the subject / [editors, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh].
Publication
London : V&A Publishing ; New York : Harry N. Abrams (Distributor in North America), 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Broackes, Victoria
  • Marsh, Geoff (Geoffrey D.)
  • Roth, Martin
  • Paglia, Camille.
  • Savage, Jon
  • Goodall, Howard
  • Breward, Christopher.
  • Cullen, Oriole
  • Frayling, Christopher
  • Hoare, Philip
  • Kermode, Mark
  • Coleridge, Nicholas.
  • Roth, Martin, 1955-2017
  • Paglia, Camille, 1947-
  • Breward, Christopher, 1965-
  • Coleridge, Nicholas, 1957-
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
Description
320 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 32 cm.
Summary
David Bowie is a pioneering artist and performer whose career has spanned nearly 50 years and brought him international acclaim. He has sold over 140 million albums, and been cited as a major influence on contemporary artists and designers working across the creative arts.
Alternative Title
  • David Bowie is inside
  • David Bowie is
Subject
  • Bowie, David > Exhibitions
  • Bowie, David > Portraits
  • Rock musicians > England > Pictorial works
  • Rock musicians > England > Biography
  • Rock music > England > History and criticism > Pictorial works
  • Rock music > England > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Pictorial works
  • Portraits
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Pictorial works.
  • Portraits.
Note
  • Issued on the occasion of the exhibition: "David Bowie is ", 23 March - 11 August, 2013. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
David Bowie is what follows / Martin Roth -- Astronaut of inner spaces: Sundridge Park, Soho, London-- mars / Geoffrey Marsh -- Theatre of gender: David Bowie at the climax of the sexual revolution / Camille Paglia -- Oh! you pretty things / Jon Savage -- Putting out fire with gasoline: designing David Bowie / Victoria Broackes -- Bowie/Music: lucky old sun is in my sky-- / Howard Goodall -- For 'we are the goon squad': Bowie, style and the power of the LP cover, 1967-1983 / Christopher Breward -- Changes: Bowie's life story / Oriole Cullen -- David Bowie then/David Bowie now / Christopher Frayling, Philip Hoare & Mark Kermode -- David Bowie is photographic / Nicholas Coleridge -- David Bowie is mapping new territories.
ISBN
  • 9781851777372 (hbk.)
  • 1851777377 (hbk.)
  • 9781851777358 (pbk.)
  • 1851777350 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2012948899
OCLC
  • 808216012
  • SCSB-12609487
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library