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Mike Kelley / John C. Welchman, Isabelle Graw, Anthony Vidler.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary artistsPublication details: London : Phaidon, 1999.Description: 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780714838342
  • 0714838349
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Contents:
Interview: Isabelle Graw in conversation with Mike Kelley -- Survey: The Mike Kelleys / John C. Welchman -- Focus: Mike Kelley's educational complex / Anthony Vidler -- Artist's choice: The use value of D.A.F. de Sade (An open letter to my current comrades) (extracts) / Georges Bataille -- The book of the damned (extracts) / Charles Fort -- Artist's writings: Some aesthetic high points (extract) / Mike Kelley -- Destroy all monsters: liner notes for 3CD box set (extract) / Mike Kelley -- Heidi (excerpted from Playing with dead things) / Mike Kelley -- We communicate only through our shared dismissal of the prelinguistic (extracts) / Mike Kelley -- Timeless/uthorless / Mike Kelley -- Thoughts on the aesthetics of ufology (excerpted from interview with M.A. Greenstein) / Mike Kelley -- A stopgap measure / Mike Kelley.
Summary: A tour of the iconoclastic artist's often outlandish work. Los Angeles-based sculptor, performance and installation artist Mike Kelley is one of the most important American artists to have emerged from the 1980s. Best known for his assemblage sculptures made from stuffed children's toys, often set upon the 'stage' of a homemade afghan, Kelley draws from popular culture as well as the modernist traditions of the found object and collage to comment on late twentieth-century American society. Familiar with his work from presentations at Documenta X (1997), and major solo museum exhibitions worldwide throughout the 1990s, Mike Kelley's audience is very broad, ranging from academics and teenage comic-book cultists to curators of the world's most prestigious museums.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 09449

Bibliography: p. 158-159.

Interview: Isabelle Graw in conversation with Mike Kelley -- Survey: The Mike Kelleys / John C. Welchman -- Focus: Mike Kelley's educational complex / Anthony Vidler -- Artist's choice: The use value of D.A.F. de Sade (An open letter to my current comrades) (extracts) / Georges Bataille -- The book of the damned (extracts) / Charles Fort -- Artist's writings: Some aesthetic high points (extract) / Mike Kelley -- Destroy all monsters: liner notes for 3CD box set (extract) / Mike Kelley -- Heidi (excerpted from Playing with dead things) / Mike Kelley -- We communicate only through our shared dismissal of the prelinguistic (extracts) / Mike Kelley -- Timeless/uthorless / Mike Kelley -- Thoughts on the aesthetics of ufology (excerpted from interview with M.A. Greenstein) / Mike Kelley -- A stopgap measure / Mike Kelley.

A tour of the iconoclastic artist's often outlandish work. Los Angeles-based sculptor, performance and installation artist Mike Kelley is one of the most important American artists to have emerged from the 1980s. Best known for his assemblage sculptures made from stuffed children's toys, often set upon the 'stage' of a homemade afghan, Kelley draws from popular culture as well as the modernist traditions of the found object and collage to comment on late twentieth-century American society. Familiar with his work from presentations at Documenta X (1997), and major solo museum exhibitions worldwide throughout the 1990s, Mike Kelley's audience is very broad, ranging from academics and teenage comic-book cultists to curators of the world's most prestigious museums.