Masks: Bowie and Artists of Artifice
- ISBN-10
- 1789381088
- ISBN-13
- 9781789381085
- Series
- Masks
- Category
- Arts and society
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-12-06
- Publisher
- Intellect (UK)
- Author
- James Curcio
Description
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: The Shifting Shaman of the Modern Age -- Introduction: Somebody Else Took His Place, and Bravely Cried -- 1. Masks All the Way Down -- 2. Mishima, Bowie and the Anti-Metaphysics of the Mask -- 3. Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Ziggy Stardust and the Fractured Mask of a Generation -- 4. Watch That Man: Splicing Tape with Burroughs and Bowie -- 5. From Vigilius Haufniensis to Ziggy Stardust: Pseudonyms, Irony and Truth in Kierkegaard and Bowie -- 6. Mascara and Marriage: The Twin Masks of David Bowie and Robert Smith -- 7. The Great Contrarians -- 8. Seeing Things Like Hunter: Ralph Steadman's Cartoon Visions as Revelatory Masks in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- 9. The Beautiful Madness: The Primacy of Wonder in the Work of Thomas Ligotti -- 10. The Skin and the Double: Firbank's Aesthetics of Surface -- 11. God's Twisted Identity -- 12. Wishful Beginnings and Creative Ends: Conversation with Davide De Angelis -- 13. On Existentialism and the Occult: Conversation with Gary Lachman -- 14. The Many Masks of Manifestation -- Epilogue: Art for Art's Sake -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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