Masks. Bowie and artists of artifice. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Curcio.
• Other Names: Curcio, James
• Contents: Acknowledgements Foreword: The Shifting Shaman of the Modern Age – John GrayIntroduction: Somebody Else Took His Place, and Bravely Cried… – James CurcioChapter 1: Masks All the Way Down – James CurcioChapter 2: Mishima, Bowie and the Anti-Metaphysics of the Mask – Roy StarrsChapter 3: Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Ziggy Stardust and the Fractured Mask of a Generation – Lúcio Reis-FilhoChapter 4: Watch That Man: Splicing Tape with Burroughs and Bowie – Casey RaeChapter 5: From Vigilius Haufniensis to Ziggy Stardust: Pseudonyms, Irony and Truth in Kierkegaard and Bowie – Tara Isabella BurtonChapter 6: Mascara and Marriage: The Twin Masks of David Bowie and Robert Smith – Tom PowersChapter 7: The Great Contrarians – Yahia LababidiChapter 8: Seeing Things Like Hunter: Ralph Steadman’s Cartoon Visions as Revelatory Masks in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Kevin J. HuntChapter 9: The Beautiful Madness: The Primacy of Wonder in the Work of Thomas Ligotti – J. F. MartelChapter 10: The Skin and the Double: Firbank’s Aesthetics of Surface – Michael HunterChapter 11: God’s Twisted Identity – Slavoj ŽižekChapter 12: Wishful Beginnings and Creative Ends: Conversation with Davide De Angelis – Davide De Angelis and James CurcioChapter 13: On Existentialism and the Occult: Conversation with Gary Lachman – Gary Lachman and James CurcioChapter 14: The Many Masks of Manifestation – John HarriganEpilogue: Art for Art’s Sake – James CurcioNotes on Contributors Index
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Intellect Ltd
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 780; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789381092; 1789381096
• Related ISBNs: 9781789381085; 1789381088
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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