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LEIGH BOWERY: BEAUTIFIED PROVOCATION
(BOWERY, LEIGH). Zechlin, René, Martin Engler, Ute Stuffer & Leigh Bowery. Hannover & Heidelberg, GERMANY: Kunstverein Hannover & Kehrer Verlag, 2008. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 136pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in German and English. With a biography, exhibition checklist and exhibition history. "Australian artist Leigh Bowery was one of the most colourful border crossers of the London club, fashion, and art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. Bowery made his sexuality a means of aesthetic expression, and consciously used his own body in his excessive abundance as an artistic media. His costumes, masquerades, and travesties investigate the concepts of fashion and the body at the boundaries to the most diverse social fields. Bowery employs his own physical bulkiness as the starting point of an extroverted body cult in which the concepts of ugliness and beauty, social standardisation and border crossings intersect". Published in conjunction with a posthumous 2008 Kunstverein Hannover retrospective exhibition, this beautifully designed catalogue copiously documents Bowery's own outrageous looks, costumes, and performances as well as his collaborations with Lucian Freud, Cerith Wyn Evans, Charles Atlas, Fergus Greer, Johnny Rozsa, and more. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon item still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-86828-033-2 Inventory Number: 024928