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Warwick Law School Public Lecture - Flirting with Fascism: The Thin White Duke, Art and Ethical Limits
Location: S0.21 Social Sciences Building
Professor Alex Sharpe, University of Warwick
This audio-visual lecture considers the relationship between the aesthetic evaluation of art and ethics. To do so, it draws on Bowie’s 1976 Isolar World tour, through which, as the Thin White Duke, Bowie performed his brilliant Station to Station album. Through this artwork (the performance, the music, the stagecraft), Bowie conjured up Nuremberg. He did so in order to explore in a more intense way a theme that had long interested him, the relationship between leader (star) and followers (audience), especially those moments when the latter give themselves over to the former, to power.
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