Sytze Steenstra
David Byrne, the singer and songwriter of the Talking Heads, the most innovative band of the 1980's, is also a successful filmmaker and photographer. Fascinated by the roles that music, TV, film and photos fulfill in life, Byrne freely employs the concepts of contemporary art and the methods of performance theatre to investigate these roles, using the results of his investigations to create his own work. In this first comprehensive study of Byrne's work, a detailed analysis of its development makes clear that it belongs within the tradition of Romanticism. Like the poetical and philosophical experiments with reflexivity of Novalis and Walter Benjamin, Byrne mixes genres and media to allow spectators and listeners a new insight in the influence of mass media on contemporary life.
416 pages, 24 black and white illustrations, 24 x 16,5 cm
ISBN: 90.9016874-5
Book design: Josh Moll
Published by: Mixed Media vof |
