Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.
Essays and Criticism
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/07/2003
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 twenty-five 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 catalogs 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.
Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.
- ISBN:
- 9780262112703
- 9780262112703
- Category:
- Theory of art
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 27-07-2003
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- MIT Press Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 258
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x203x11mm
- Weight:
- 0.75kg
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