This interdisciplinary anthology explores the complex relationships in an artist's life between fact and fiction, presentation and existence, and critique and creation, and examines the work that ultimately results from these tensions.

Using a combination of critical and personal essays and interviews, MASKS presents Bowie as the key exemplifier of the concept of the 'mask', then further applies the same framework to other liminal artists and thinkers who challenged the established boundaries of the art/pop academic worlds, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Søren Kierkegaard, Yukio Mishima and Hunter S. Thompson. Featuring contributions from John Gray and Slavoj Žižek and interviews with Gary Lachman and Davide De Angelis, this book will appeal to scholars and students of cultural criticism, aesthetics and the philosophy of art; practising artists; and fans of Bowie and other artists whose work enacts experiments in identity.

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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
Foreword: The Shifting Shaman of the Modern Age
Introduction: Somebody Else Took His Place, and Bravely Cried …
1. Masks All the Way Down
2. Mishima, Bowie and the Anti-Metaphysics of the Mask
3. Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Ziggy Stardust and the Fractured Mask of a Generation
4. Watch That Man: Splicing Tape with Burroughs and Bowie
5. From Vigilius Haufniensis to Ziggy Stardust: Pseudonyms, Irony and Truth in Kierkegaard and Bowie
6. Mascara and Marriage: The Twin Masks of David Bowie and Robert Smith
7. The Great Contrarians
8. Seeing Things Like Hunter: Ralph Steadman’s Cartoon Visions as Revelatory Masks in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
9. The Beautiful Madness: The Primacy of Wonder in the Work of Thomas Ligotti
10. The Skin and the Double: Firbank’s Aesthetics of Surface
11. God’s Twisted Identity
12. Wishful Beginnings and Creative Ends: Conversation with Davide De Angelis
14. The Many Masks of Manifestation
Epilogue: Art for Art’s Sake
Notes on Contributors
Index

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