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The Mirror Steamed Over - Love and Pop in London, 1962 (Paperback)
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The Mirror Steamed Over - Love and Pop in London, 1962 (Paperback)
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In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three
extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art
and literature. Barrie Bates (who would become Billy Apple in
November 1962) was an ambitious young graphic designer from New
Zealand, who transformed himself into one of pop art's pioneers. At
the same time, his friend and fellow student David Hockney - young,
Northern and openly gay - was making his own waves in the London
art world. Bates and Hockney travelled together, bleached their
hair together, and, despite being two of London's rising art stars,
almost failed art school together. And in the middle of it all was
the secretary of the Royal College's Painting School - an aspiring
young novelist called Ann Quin. Quin ghost-wrote her lover Bates's
dissertation and collaborated with him on a manifesto, all the
while writing Berg: the experimental novel that would establish her
as one of the British literary scene's most exciting new voices.
Taking us back to London's art scene in the late fifties and early
sixties, award-winning writer Anthony Byrt illuminates a key moment
in cultural history and tackles big questions: Where did Pop and
conceptual art come from? How did these three remarkable young
outsiders change British culture? And what was the relationship
between revolutions in personal and sexual identities and these
major shifts in contemporary art? From the Royal College to Coney
Island and Madison Avenue, encountering R. D. Laing and Norman
Mailer, Shirley Clarke and Larry Rivers, The Mirror Steamed Over is
a remarkable journey through a pivotal moment in contemporary
culture.
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