MASKS

Bowie and Artists of Artifice

By: James Curcio (Editor)

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eBook | 15 January 2020 | Edition Number 1

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This interdisciplinary anthology explores the complex relationships in an artist's life between fact and fiction, presentation and existence, and critique and creation, and examines the work that ultimately results from these tensions.

Using a combination of critical and personal essays and interviews, MASKS presents Bowie as the key exemplifier of the concept of the 'mask', then further applies the same framework to other liminal artists and thinkers who challenged the established boundaries of the art/pop academic worlds, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Soren Kierkegaard, Yukio Mishima and Hunter S. Thompson. Featuring contributions from John Gray and Slavoj ?i?ek and interviews with Gary Lachman and Davide De Angelis, this book will appeal to scholars and students of cultural criticism, aesthetics and the philosophy of art; practising artists; and fans of Bowie and other artists whose work enacts experiments in identity.

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"Artists who swim in liminal seas, who speak through symbol, myth and mask embodying our deepest and darkest dreams, both intrigue and terrify. Intrinsically compelled or performatively constructed, they become our shamans by proxy. But Curcio delves further, exploring the complex relationship between the artist and the projections and obsessions that swirl around them, not always transforming but sometimes merging or devouring them. It is a fascinating journey into the mysterious energies surrounding artists of artifice."

Tanja Stark - artist