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PublisherPrestel Gmbh & Co KG.

ISBN-103791352415

ISBN-139783791352411

eBay Product ID (ePID)117229362

Product Key Features

Book TitleMike Kelley

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicIndividual Artists / General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorEva Meyer-Hermann

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight99.4 Oz

Item Length12.1 in

Item Width10 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-003821

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal709.2

SynopsisThis thematic retrospective catalogue is the most comprehensive volume ever published on the iconoclastic American artist Mike Kelley. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Mike Kelley assembled an incredibly diverse and often controversial body of work. Working across many disciplines, he created works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, installation, music and sound works, and performances that managed to be at once shocking yet funny, and complex yet accessible. This companion volume to a much-anticipated retrospective exhibition was conceived in close collaboration with the artist as an overview of his career--from his early Performative Sculptures and Objects to the abject sculptures made of old stuffed animals to the multi-part video installation Day Is Done to the ambitious Mobile Homestead, the artist's final work before his untimely passing in 2012. This book features essays and a fully annotated plate section, as well as a newly researched and revised exhibition chronology, performance history, videography, discography, and bibliography of Kelley's work. In addition, the publication includes the artist's last interview. Mike Kelley promises to be the definitive reference on the work of this singular and highly influential artist., This thematic retrospective catalogue is the most comprehensive volume ever published on the iconoclastic American artist Mike Kelley. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Mike Kelley assembled an incredibly diverse and often controversial body of work. Working across many disciplines, he created works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, installation, music and sound works, and performances that managed to be at once shocking yet funny, and complex yet accessible. This companion volume to a much-anticipated retrospective exhibition was conceived in close collaboration with the artist as an overview of his career--from his early Performative Sculptures and Objects to the "abject" sculptures made of old stuffed animals to the multi-part video installation Day Is Done to the ambitious Mobile Homestead, the artist's final work before his untimely passing in 2012. This book features essays and a fully annotated plate section, as well as a newly researched and revised exhibition chronology, performance history, videography, discography, and bibliography of Kelley's work. In addition, the publication includes the artist's last interview. Mike Kelley promises to be the definitive reference on the work of this singular and highly influential artist., From the mid-1970s, Mike Kelley assembled an incredibly diverse and often controversial body of work. A multi-disciplinary impresario, he created works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, installation, and performance art that managed to be at once shocking yet humorous, and complex yet accessible. This companion volume to a much-anticipated exhibition brings a fresh understanding to the artist's work by seeking to address the more poetic aspects of Kelley's work through Eva Meyer-Hermann's unique curatorial approach. Here she presents individual works in new combinations that cross the boundaries of chronology, bodies of work, and former artistic project groups. Identifying themes such as architecture, language, identity, Informe, power, modernisms, nostalgia, and religion, the book represents ideas that have informed Kelley's work throughout his career. As a result, the overarching lines of his oeuvre become visible and accessible. This book features essays, a fully annotated plate section, and a newly researched and revised biography and bibliography of Kelley's work. The publication promises to be the definitive work on the artist., This thematic retrospective catalogue is the most comprehensive volume ever published on the iconoclastic American artist Mike Kelley.

LC Classification NumberN6537