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By: Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary artistsPublication details: London : Phaidon, ©1999.Description: 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 0714838349
  • 9780714838342
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N6537.K423 W45 1999
Contents:
Interview / Isabelle Graw in conversation with Mike Kelley -- The Mike Kelleys / John C. Welchman -- Mike Kelley's educational complex / Anthony Vidler -- 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 -- Some aesthetic high points (extract) -- Destroy all monsters: liner notes for 3CD box set (extract) -- Heidi (excerpted from Playing with dead things) -- We communicate only through our shared dismissal of the prelinguistic (extracts) -- Timeless/uthorless -- Thoughts on the aesthetics of ufology (excerpted from interview with M.A. Greenstein) -- A stopgap measure / Mike Kelley -- Chronology.
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159).

Interview / Isabelle Graw in conversation with Mike Kelley -- The Mike Kelleys / John C. Welchman -- Mike Kelley's educational complex / Anthony Vidler -- 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 -- Some aesthetic high points (extract) -- Destroy all monsters: liner notes for 3CD box set (extract) -- Heidi (excerpted from Playing with dead things) -- We communicate only through our shared dismissal of the prelinguistic (extracts) -- Timeless/uthorless -- Thoughts on the aesthetics of ufology (excerpted from interview with M.A. Greenstein) -- A stopgap measure / Mike Kelley -- Chronology.

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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