Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends
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Outrageous exquisite corpses from the heart of London’s clubland.
The wild years of the 1980s and early 1990s, when central London was a clubbers’ paradise… a circle of young, queer friends, including the celebrated Australian designer, performer, musician, and provocateur Leigh Bowery and his Minty bandmates, would get together at Richard Torry’s Soho flat before hitting the town.
To pass the time, the troupe would sometimes make “exquisite corpses”, employing a technique popular with the Surrealists to create compound images of often outrageous characters.
Collected here for the first time are over 100 of their wild creations, acerbic observations and beautiful monsters.
Foreword by Jonny Trunk
Richard Torry is a musician, artist and former member of the band Minty, with Leigh Bowery.
Jonny Trunk is a British writer, broadcaster, DJ and founder of Trunk Records. He has edited and compiled a number of books for Fuel, Four Corners Books, and others.
- Artist Leigh Bowery
- Dimensions 22.9 x 15.2 cm
- ISBN 9781917319003
- Paperback Yes
- Number of illustrations 118 Black and white illustrations
- Publisher Strange Attractor Press
- No of pages 128
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We currently offer free standard delivery on UK orders over £60. Our other delivery costs are as follows.
For orders under £60:
UK Standard – £5 per order
UK Express – £7.50 per order
Rest of world ((excluding EU) – £28 per order
From 13 December 2024, we will be temporarily pausing shipping to the European Union and Northern Ireland, to update our details to comply with new EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). We will restart shipping to the EU and NI as soon as possible, thank you for your patience.
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