IGGY POP LIFE CLASS By Jeremy Deller; text by Anne Pasternak, Sharon Atkins, Mark Beasley, and Frances Borzello, HENI Publishing, 2016

Iggy Pop Life Class: A Project by Jeremy Deller, text by Anne Pasternak, Sharon Atkins, Mark Beasley, and Frances BorzelloWhat is “male beauty” in the modern world? What is the value of simple line drawings, in an age when technology offers so many alternatives? And what could rock star Iggy Pop have in common with the sculptures of Antiquity and the Renaissance? These questions are explored in Jeremy Deller’s Iggy Pop Life Class, for which Iggy Pop posed nude for a group of artists of all ages and abilities. The resulting drawings capture their subject’s natural ease and comfort with his body, a comfort likely fostered by decades of performing shirtless for massive audiences. From some angles, Iggy Pop even comes to resemble Michelangelo’s David, if a bit older and rougher around the edges. That’s another highlight of the collection: the different ways each artist evokes the decades of life experience that Iggy wears on his body.