Roxy (eBook)

Michael Bracewell (Autor)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
464 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-27670-7 (ISBN)

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'Re-make/Re-model' tells the extraordinary and largely unknown story of the individuals and circumstances that would lead over a period of almost twenty years to the formation of Roxy Music - a group in which art, fashion and music would combine to create in the words of its inventor, Bryan Ferry, 'above all, a state of mind'. Written with the assistance, for the first time, of all of those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera; the fashion designer Antony Price, the founding guru of Pop art, and Bryan Ferry's tutor, Richard Hamilton, and many more, 'Re-make/Re-model' is also the account of how Pop art, the avant garde underground of the 1960s, and the heady slipstream of London in the Sixties was transformed into the fashion cults of revivalism, nostalgia and pop futurism in the early 1970s.

Michael Bracewell is the author of six novels and two works of non-fiction, including the much acclaimed England Is Mine. His writing has appeared in The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Fashion Writing and The Faber Book of Pop, and he has written catalogue texts for many contemporary artists, including Richard Wentworth, Jim Lambie and Gilbert & George. He was the co-curator of 'The Secret Public: The Last Days of The British Underground, 1977-1988', at Kunstverein Munchen in 2006, and was a Turner Prize judge in 2007.

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'Re-make/Re-model' tells the extraordinary and largely unknown story of the individuals and circumstances that would lead over a period of almost twenty years to the formation of Roxy Music - a group in which art, fashion and music would combine to create in the words of its inventor, Bryan Ferry, "e;above all, a state of mind"e;. Written with the assistance, for the first time, of all of those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera; the fashion designer Antony Price, the founding guru of Pop art, and Bryan Ferry's tutor, Richard Hamilton, and many more, 'Re-make/Re-model' is also the account of how Pop art, the avant garde underground of the 1960s, and the heady slipstream of London in the Sixties was transformed into the fashion cults of revivalism, nostalgia and pop futurism in the early 1970s.

Rezensionen

Bracewell is an adroit cultural analyst ... Offers many insights into this period, with the polish of a dandified intellectual.

More than the story of just one band, it is also a cultural history of sorts, travelling from the austere Britain of the 1950s to the glitter and experimentation of the early 1970s.Bracewell spends a considerable amount of time examining the cultural atmospherics that shaped Roxy Music, with particular emphasis on the emergence of pop art and the role of Britain's art schools as hothouses for a new avant-garde. He describes the important mentoring role played by artists and lecturers such as Richard Hamilton and Viv Donagh ... captures that period of freshness and adventure.

A natural writer and resourceful researcher - the principal interviews are all original - Bracewell explicates Roxy's 'constellation of ideas' with panache ... a social and intellectual history. As such, bravo.

Bracewell painstakingly pulls together the seemingly disparate strands of postwar arts schools, fashion and pre-70's music to create a compelling narrative, one that explains how Roxy Music came to exist, and just why they turned out to be so different, so special, so unique. Full of excellent detail.

Michael Bracewell's admirable, thorough, calm books is a 400page attempt to find out, precisely and in astonishing detail, what the tributaries were that fed into Roxy and made both group and album possible...what he reveals is not just the story of this album and these people - it's also, in its unlikely way, the story of these isles.

Roxy Music was pop as pure image - glamorous, flippant, artificial, arty - and Bracewell's intelligent, if overtly serious , account does it justice.

This is the story of how student dreams in grubby bedrooms can bring forth fabulous fruit. It is also the first detailed analysis of the origins of 1970s pop style. That decade has often been considered the trashy interval between 1960s chic and 1980s money. In fact, it was an era of astounding complexity, crazier than the 1960s, a time when reality started to dissolve into cyberspace. It has yet to be properly assessed, but Bracewell has made a notable beginning on one fascinating, romantic corner of it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Andy Warhol • Brian Eno • Bryan Ferry • David Bowie • Manic Street Preachers • Rolling Stones • Ziggy Stardust
• ISBN-10: 0-571-27670-9 / 0571276709
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27670-7 / 9780571276707