{"product_id":"21423-bowery-leigh-greer-fergus-leigh-bowery-1991","title":"[Bowery, Leigh. (1961 - 1994)] Greer, Fergus. (b. 1964) Leigh Bowery, 1991","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilver gelatin prints (2). Image size: 16 x 20 inches [50.5 x 40.5 cm]. Together with dated and attributed on printed label affixed on verso of prior mounts.  Moderate surface creasing and area of tone bleaching to one print, else fine. The full sheets measuring: 31.5 x 38.25 inches. Provenance: Sotheby's \u003cem\u003ePositive View\u003c\/em\u003e sale, 1994. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo photographs of extraordinary size and impact, depicting theboundary-breaking artist whose mix of shape-shifting costumes and sensationalist theatricality made him a trailblazer of progressive performance.  Bowery may be seen wearing the taffeta pompom and outfit on the left in his appearance on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/article\/38231\/1\/that-time-leigh-bowery-amanda-lepore-met-joan-rivers\"\u003eJoan Rivers show\u003c\/a\u003e in 1993. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Leigh Bowery’s place in fashion, art and popular culture is seditionary. The fashions he created were not worn on the streets, very rarely seen in daylight, or generated for mass consumption. His dress style hailed from club culture, a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003end the concepts of dressing up and masquerade....\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAfter 1990 Bowery stopped using fancy decorations on his clothing, instead, his work became much more abstract and surreal....\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBowery had already attempted to distort his own body with unorthodox combinations of clothing forms and the deception of make-up. The \u003ci\u003ePregnant tutu head\u003c\/i\u003e‘s top has a protruding belly suggesting the silhouette of a pregnant woman and the continuation of the species; it is worn with stretch pants....The headpiece is formed like a large pompom made from tiers of orange tulle frills zipping up the back; the wearer encapsulated in a puff of fabric.\" (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRobyn Healy, \"Taboo or Not Taboo, the fashions of Leigh Bowery,\" ART JOURNAL, 2 Jun2, 2014)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093781008543,"sku":"21423","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/H3383-L290463667_original.jpg?v=1722190310","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/21423-bowery-leigh-greer-fergus-leigh-bowery-1991","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}