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| Title | : | Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (820 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262611783 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
All rights reserved. . For example, in his essay "Death and Transfiguration," Kelley declares that Paul Thek’s "amazing wax effigy of himself: a striking hippie in permanent fixed decay" is "a pink raspberry shitsicle" made in response to the "porcelain-white vanilla bar" of Walt Disney’s own frozen corpse. Kelley, a Los Angeles-based artist, is best known for his ironic, politically acidic, often hilarious reconfigurations of cultural tropes, particularly as they have filtered through art and commerce (as when Kelley added breasts to the Native American icon of Land O’ Lakes butter). A theory of the Uncanny; commentary on everyone from Marcel Broodthaers and Öyvind Fahlström to Baby Huey and the New York Dolls; an analysis of the use of Pepto-Bismol in the work of Korean-American artist Cody Hyun Choi; a comparison between wha
Five Stars very interesting work from a great artist
John C. Welchman is Professor of Modern Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.
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. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and scu
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