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Foul Perfection

Essays and Criticism
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The work of artist Mike Kelley (b.1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy and gender-bending. This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last 25 years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic". It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogues and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.

Author Biography:

Mike Kelley is a Los Angeles-based artist, noise musician, and writer. He is a member of the graduate faculty in the M.F.A. program at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. John C. Welchman is Professor of Modern Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. He is the editor of Minor Histories- Statements, Conversations, Proposals, a collection of writings by the artist Mike Kelley (MIT Press).
Release date NZ
June 20th, 2003
Author
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by John C Welchman
Illustrations
34 b&w illus.
Interest Age
From 18 years
Pages
258
Dimensions
203x229x11
ISBN-13
9780262611787
Product ID
4785277

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