BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

24 “ As was the case with Miles Davis in jazz, Bowie has come not just to represent his innovations but to symbolize modern rock as an idiom in which literacy, art, fashion, style, sexual exploration and social commentary can be rolled into one” - Rolling Stone” magazine . Bowie was the man who raised his music to what can only be described as an art form. David Robert Jones - Brixton January 8, 1947 > Manhattan January 10 2016,. Driven by an entirely deeper dynamic than most pop artists, David Bowie inhabits a very special world of extraordinary sounds and endless vision. Unwilling to stay on the treadmill of rock legend and avoiding the descent into ever demeaning and decreasing circles of cliché, Bowie writes and performs what he wants, when he wants. In 2013 the V & A had unprecedented access to David Bowie ’s archives to guide the first international retrospective of David Bowie’s extraordinary career: “David Bowie is.” This exhibition explored Bowie’s creative processes as a mu- sical innovator and cultural icon, retracing his changing style and reinvention for five decades. V & A’s Theater and Performance Conservators, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh had selected more than 300 items together for the very first time. Handwritten lyrics, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, drawings, Bowie’s instruments and album works. The retrospective had highlighted the wide range of collaborations that Bowie had with artists and designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theater, art and film. Modem Men’s Modem New York/LA Spring-Summer-2014 Covers by DAVID BOWIE ARTIST 2013