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TEACHERS PACK GLAM! the PERFORMANCE of STYLE 8 February – 12 May 2013 TEACHERS PACK 8 February – 12 May 2013 May –12 8 February OF STYLE GLAM! THE PERFORMANCE Peter Hujar Candy Darling on her Deathbed 1974 © The Peter Hujar Archive, LCC; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York INTRODUCTION Glam, a visually extravagant pop style The pack is designed to support teachers and exploded across Britain during the years educators in planning a visit to the exhibition 1971–5. The exciting, futuristic sounds, with a collection of ideas, workshops and extravagant fashions and glitter-dappled points for discussion. The activities are personas emerging in this era had their suitable for all ages and can be adapted to roots firmly in British art schools. your needs before, during and after your visit. Glam! The Performance of Style is the A special school group price for exhibitions first exhibition to explore glam style is available if you book and pay at least and sensibility in depth. The exhibition two weeks in advance. Groups of students investigates artistic developments in under 18 years of age £4 and over 18s £4.40. Britain, Europe and North America through Teachers wanting to make a research trip the prism of glam, examining painting, to the exhibition in advance of a visit are sculpture, installation art, film, photography welcome to do so free of charge. Please and performance. book in advance. To book a visit please call 0151 702 7400. Bringing together more than 100 artworks, the exhibition will reveal the genealogy of For further details about visiting glam. Themes of camp, exaggerated identity, Tate Liverpool with your group see: androgyny, eroticism and dandyism will be www.tate.org.uk/learn/teachers/school-visits- explored in the work of David Hockney, tate-liverpool Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman and many more. The exhibition also includes a new adaptation Details of events for both teachers of Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s spectacular, and students can be found on page 17 glitter-strewn installation Celebration?Realife Nan Goldin Kenny putting on make-up, Boston 1973 featuring mirror balls, strobe and stage Email [email protected] © Nan Goldin, courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery lighting and music including David Bowie. Call +44 (0)151 702 7400 2 Teachers Pack – Glam! The Performance of Style CONTENTS GUIDE TO GLAM ROCK 4 ART DIRECTED LIFESTYLE 6 David Hockney Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 1970–1 ART AND LIFE 7 Marc Camille Chaimowicz Celebration?Realife 1972–2000 ROCK SCHOOL 9 Roxy Music, The Moodies, Richard Hamilton and Bruce McLean THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST 11 Bowie 1971–4 ANDY WARHOL, LOU REED AND THE NEW YORK SCENE 13 FURTHER RESOURCES 15 EVENTS 16 3 Teachers Pack – Glam! The Performance of Style A GUIDE TO GLAM ROCK GLAM ROCK was a visually extravagant style AMERICAN GLAM ROCK was associated of rock and pop music developed in Britain in with darker lyrics, heavier sound and more ACTIVITIES the early 1970s, characterised by outrageous overt sexuality than its British counterpart. costumes, make-up and hairstyles. Many of the bands took their stylistic FIND out about glam rock. Research the inspiration from New York drag queens bands. Listen to their music. Watch clips GLAM STYLE was camp or androgynous and and transvestites, for example: Iggy Pop, of them on YouTube. What did they wear? often linked to changing views on gender Alice Cooper, New York Dolls How did their fans dress? Make a collage roles. Visually, it was an eclectic mix of with images, sheet music, posters, album retro-fashions (Teddy-Boy suits, Hollywood PERFORMANCE and appearance played an covers, glitter, satin etc to represent your film stars, pre-war cabaret etc) and a trashy important part in Glam Rock. David Bowie favourite glam band or performer. futuristic look (satin jump-suits, platform created the persona of Ziggy Stardust in boots, sci-fi etc). 1971 and famously ‘killed’ the character on MAKE glam accessories to accentuate stage at the Hammersmith Odeon, London or transform an aspect of your character MUSIC was also diverse, ranging from 1973. Alice Cooper incorporated snakes into and personality sophisticated art school rock of Roxy Music; his live acts. Elton John wore flamboyant gender-bending space-age rock of Bowie, costumes accessorised by increasingly T.Rex, Sweet; retro rock and roll of Mud, outrageous glasses and high platform-boots. Alvin Stardust etc. As Glam became commercially successful, the British pop FANS of glam rock would adopt the style of charts were taken over by stomping glitter their idols, for example: followers of Roxy bands and rock & roll revival acts such as Music would wear sophisticated evening dress Showaddywaddy, Suzi Quatro, Rubettes, and classy suits like Bryan Ferry; Bowie fans Wizzard, Slade. Many existing bands also would paint their faces in gaudy colours, dye adopted the glam look during the period, their hair orange and wear satin jump-suits; for example Elton John, Rod Stewart, Queen, Slade supporters wore platform boots, tank- Mott the Hoople and the Rolling Stones. tops and braces. Badges, rosettes and scarves with the bands’ names became a popular means of demonstrating allegiance. 4 Teachers Pack – Glam! The Performance of Style ART DIRECTED LIFESTYLE David Hockney Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 1970–1 David Hockney Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 1970–1 5 Teachers Pack – Glam! The Performance of Style ART DIRECTED LIFESTYLE David Hockney Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 1970-1 Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell were part of suggest their independence and individuality. the 60s fashion scene at a time when London It can also represent the gulf developing ACTIVITIES enjoyed a worldwide reputation. Clark’s between them. Both figures engage with designs made in Birtwell’s textile prints were the viewer, not each other. Celia stands with RESEARCH 1970s fashion: Find out about sold from the celebrated Quorum boutique hands on hips, her curls highlighted to give Ossie Clark, Celia Birtwell, Zandra Rhodes, on King’s Road, Chelsea and modelled by such her the aura of a Botticelli angel. Next to her Mr Fish, Kansai Yamamoto etc. Make your celebrities as Elizabeth Taylor, Twiggy and on the table is a vase of lilies. These flowers own designs based on their styles. Mick Jagger. represent purity in art iconography and also have associations with the Annunciation (she FIND examples of different fashions in the David Hockney was a close friend of both was pregnant at the time). Ossie slouches in exhibition. Make notes and draw sketches Ossie and Celia and this double portrait a seat, cigarette in hand, bare feet sensuously of the different styles associated with glam was executed shortly after their wedding playing with the rich pile of the rug. His gaze rock. Collect images and find out about at which he was best man. Hockney stated: is aloof and pose slightly camp – Ossie was 70s clothes such as platforms, loons, tank- ‘my main aim was to paint the relationship openly bi-sexual. The cat sitting on his lap is tops, midi and maxi dresses etc. of these two people.’ their other pet, Blanche rather than Percy, but Hockney felt the latter’s name sounded better DESCRIBE another room and its inhabitants He chose to depict them in the bedroom in the title. The cat, which is traditionally a from the exhibition (eg Derek Jarman of their chic Notting Hill apartment where symbol of infidelity in art, hints at Clark’s Duggie Fields at Home 1974; Franz Gertsch sunlight was filtered through a louvre extra-marital affairs which would lead to At Luciano’s House 1973; Nancy Hellebrand window. The room in effect becomes a stage the couple’s separation three years later. Dave and a Friend 1973–4). What do the with details of furnishings and possessions To further reinforce this message, Hockney furnishings and possessions tell you about carefully positioned in order to help the has placed one of his own etchings of the people in the room? Imagine that you viewer decipher the painting. Ossie and A Rake’s Progress 1961-3 on the wall behind are a journalist travelling back in time to Celia may appear to be a typical professional the couple. visit their homes and write a report on couple, but Hockney allows domestic details your experience. to hint at the growing tension in their relationship. Mr and Mrs Clark are placed DESIGN a room to reflect your personality, either side of the open window, which could interests and lifestyle. 6 Teachers Pack – Glam! The Performance of Style ART AND LIFE Marc Camille Chaimowicz Celebration?Realife 1972–2000 At the time of its creation, Celebration?Realife Celebration?Realife was first created in Since 2000, the work has been reconstructed represented a radical response to the 1972 for the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and several times with some modifications. Since current glam scene. This installation work subsequently staged at Gallery House, its first staging when it was viewed as cutting- is comprised of a carefully arranged London, later that year. Chaimowicz refers edge contemporary art, the work has taken assemblage of found objects, items of to this form of art as a ‘scatter environment’ on historical significance. With its relics of the clothing, accessories, documentary material, which combines high art with ‘low art’ of glam era and soundtrack of 70s music, it is tinsel and glitter which appear to have been popular culture in a seemingly random evocative of a unique social group during a strewn on the floor. Lit by strobe lighting, display. For the original version, the artist was specific period in time. spotlights and the tessellated mirrors of present as part of the installation, offering disco balls, it appears to be the aftermath cups of tea and making conversation with The question mark in the title is crucial for of a 1970s party.
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