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Nel vostro morire deve ardere ancora il vostro spirito e la vostra virtù, come un vespero sulla terra: altrimenti il morire vi è riuscito male. Così voglio morire anche io, affinché voi, amici, amiate la terra ancor più, per amor mio; e voglio tornare a essere terra, per aver pace in colei che mi ha generato. ….

David Bowie Is by Victoria Broackes | Goodreads

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler Ci sono due aspetti che mi si offrono oggi sopra tutti: il primo è quello più propriamente inerente la sua opera, che ho appena sfiorato, e rispetto alla quale rivaluto anche l'attrazione da sempre percepita.In addition to having been artistically influenced by books, Bowie himself served as inspiration for several famed comic book characters. When asked whether the Lucifer character in his Sandman comic book series was a tribute, Neil Gaiman stated,“Yes, the young, folk singer-period Bowie was the inspiration. I imagined Lucifer as a junkie angel, and young Bowie was the closest we got.” Bowie was also a major influence for writer Grant Morrison’s interpretation of the Joker in Batman RIP, with one issue explicitly titled “The Thin White Duke of Death.”

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With more than 500 photographs, this is the ultimate portrait of an inspiring, challenging and ever-changing artist. The last image they made was at four in the morning to wrap up the marathon session when they went outside to shoot Bowie on his motorcycle – the sun hadn’t yet risen and the shot was lit dramatically by only the headlights of a car. This image remains one of Schapiro’s favourites and is certain to live on in posterity. Bowie’s Berlin period, which stretched between 1976 and 1978, was about a partial retreat from those demands, into what then passed for (relative) sobriety and calm. As against his time in LA, he claimed to have suddenly become “incredibly straight, level, assertive, moderate” – although his new companion Iggy Pop later claimed that their average seven days broke down into “two for bingeing, two for recovery and three more for any other activity”. Bowie discovered Buddhism in the mid-1960s, befriending exiled Tibetan lamas in London and devouring Heinrich Harrer’s 1952 memoir. Harrer had lived in Tibet at a time when few Westerners had ever ventured there, and documented its last days as an independent kingdom before the Chinese conquest. Harrer’s depictions of the Dalai Lama’s Potala palace would shape Bowie’s 1967 “Silly Boy Blue,” the song of a dreaming monk in Lhasa. And decades later, Bowie named a song on his Earthling album after Harrer’s book. In his own “Seven Years in Tibet,” Bowie returned in the mid-1990s to find a land still under the tyrant’s heel, still dreaming resistance.La mostra “David Bowie Is” è stata inaugurata a Londra nel 2013, e da allora è itinerante per il mondo. Nel frattempo il 10 gennaio 2016 David Bowie è morto e da maggio a novembre la mostra è approdata al Mambo di Bologna. Author Kevin Cann has worked closely with the V&A in producing the “David Bowie is” exhibition, meaning the same standard of care and prestige put into the exhibition has been put into this book as well. In fact, many of the rare photos on show at the V&A were first seen in Any Day Now. In Starman, Paul Trynka has painted the definitive portrait of a great artist. From Bowie’s early years in post-war, bombed-out Brixton to the decadent glamour of Ziggy Stardust to the controversial but vital Berlin period, this essential biography is a celebration of Bowie’s brilliance and a timely reminder of how great music is made – now with an update on the making and release of The Next Day. I am still very glad I went, and feel overwhelmingly positive about it, and him, but a big part of me also felt uneasy. That feeling was at its height as I went through the inevitable plethora of artefacts on sale in the gift shop, many at ludicrous prices. Having seen the exhibition and read the book - if you don't get to see the exhibition buy the book. It's wonderful and informative, a truly wonderful piece written by people passionate about Bowie. Just buying the book and opening it was a treat but reading it- awesome.

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