Mike Kelley: 1985-1996 - Couverture souple

KELLEY, MIKE

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8489771804 ISBN 13 : 9788489771802

Editeur : Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 1999

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 8489771804
• ISBN 13: 9788489771802
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 206