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Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe
Will Brooker
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Description for Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe
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Most of the many books about David Bowie track his artistic 'changes' chronologically throughout his career. This book, uniquely, examines Bowie's 'sameness': his recurring themes, images, motifs and concepts as an artist, across all his creative work, from lyrics and music through to costumes, storyboards, films, plays and painting.To be published on Bowie's 70th birthday, Forever Stardust looks at Bowie's work not as a linear evolution through calendar time, to his tragic death in January 2016, but as a matrix, a dialogue, a network of ideas that echo back and forth across the five decades of his career, interacting with ... Read more
Most of the many books about David Bowie track his artistic 'changes' chronologically throughout his career. This book, uniquely, examines Bowie's 'sameness': his recurring themes, images, motifs and concepts as an artist, across all his creative work, from lyrics and music through to costumes, storyboards, films, plays and painting.To be published on Bowie's 70th birthday, Forever Stardust looks at Bowie's work not as a linear evolution through calendar time, to his tragic death in January 2016, but as a matrix, a dialogue, a network of ideas that echo back and forth across the five decades of his career, interacting with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784531423
SKU
V9781784531423
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About Will Brooker
Will Brooker is Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at Kingston University in London. His research into David Bowie for this book involved a year of immersion in Bowie's styles, influences and experiences and has attracted international media attention.He is editor of 'Cinema Journal' and the author or editor of many books on popular culture, including Hunting the Dark Knight ... Read more
Reviews for Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe
'Forever Stardust combines over four decades of criticism and biography into a lucid, compelling study. It is an intelligent and nuanced look at an artist whose total achievement is only now beginning to be discovered.' - Chris O'Leary, author, Pushing Ahead of the Dame and Rebel Rebel, 'This book truly has it all about David Bowie, the man who mesmerized ... Read more