DAVID BOWIE - THE POP AVANT-GARDE

Half a century after his debut, David Bowie's protean career still represents a model in terms of audiovisual art, constantly on the border between the avant-garde and entertainment. A crossroads of influences and constantly renewed collaborators - notably Andy Warhol, Brian Eno, Nile Rodgers and Nine Inch Nails - Bowie's work is intended to be in perpetual mutation. Having inspired for decades creators as diverse as Joy Division, Prince, Radiohead and Lady Gaga, all marked by his work on the relationship between music and image and by the balance he establishes between experimentation and pop music, Bowie is at honor in Matthieu Thibault's book. It thus analyzes the artist's complete discography period by period, collaborator by collaborator, from the first mod singles from the mid-sixties to the sparkling farewell of Blackstar in January 2016.