Download or read book Mike Kelley Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical appraisal of Mike Kelley's politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writings American artist Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was the mastermind behind some of the most bizarre and instantly recognizable artistic projects of the 1990s. Dedicated as he was to visual art, Kelley was also an insightful theorist who wrote prolifically about his own creations as well as the historical context in which he worked. His writing reveals a matrix of deeply felt theories regarding the aesthetics of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s, and his concern with victim culture and repressed memory syndrome. This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of the artist, assessing his personal philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley's work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua's transdisciplinary approach, Kelley's oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics.
Download or read book Minor Histories written by Mike Kelley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-02-06 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of writings by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, focusing on his own work. What John C. Welchman calls the "blazing network of focused conflations" from which Mike Kelley's styles are generated is on display in all its diversity in this second volume of the artist's writings. The first volume, Foul Perfection, contained thematic essays and writings about other artists; this collection concentrates on Kelley's own work, ranging from texts in "voices" that grew out of scripts for performance pieces to expository critical and autobiographical writings.Minor Histories organizes Kelley's writings into five sections. "Statements" consists of twenty pieces produced between 1984 and 2002 (most of which were written to accompany exhibitions), including "Ajax," which draws on Homer, Colgate- Palmolive, and Longinus to present its eponymous hero; "Some Aesthetic High Points," an exercise in autobiography that counters the standard artist bio included in catalogs and press releases; and a sequence of "creative writings" that use mass cultural tropes in concert with high art mannerisms—approximating in prose the visual styles that characterize Kelley's artwork. "Video Statements and Proposals" are introductions to videos made by Kelley and other artists, including Paul McCarthy and Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. "Image-Texts" offers writings that accompany or are part of artworks and installations. This section includes "A Stopgap Measure," Kelley's zestful millennial essay in social satire, and "Meet John Doe," a collage of appropriated texts. "Architecture" features an discussion of Kelley's Educational Complex (1995) and an interview in which he reflects on the role of architecture in his work. Finally, "Ufology" considers the aesthetics and sexuality of space as manifested by UFO sightings and abduction scenarios.
Download or read book Mike Kelley Exploded Fortress of Solitude written by Jeffrey Sconce and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue documenting the last two exhibitions of new work by American artist Mike Kelley, held in 2011 at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and London. Mike Kelley made nostalgia, memory, and repression in everyday life the topics of his idiosyncratic sculptures, performances, paintings, and installations, which conflate vernacular sources and high modernist aesthetics. A veteran of the Los Angeles conceptual art scene, Kelley used deconstructive strategies in order to challenge the established norms of contemporary culture, both high and low.
Download or read book Foul Perfection written by Mike Kelley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-06-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley. 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, Öyvind Fahlström, 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.
Download or read book Mike Kelley written by Ralph Rugoff and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published to accompany the exhibition Mike Kelley: Memory Ware November 3-December 23, 2016 Hauser & Wirth New York."
Download or read book Mike Kelley written by and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mike Kelley written by John C. Welchman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mike Kelley written by Mike Kelley and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue presents Mike Kelley's most important work produced over the last ten years and is a vital look at one of the most active international artists. Transporting household kitsch and mass visual media from their normal contexts into purposefully confusing configurations, Kelley confronts our assumed notions of popular culture. Often incorporating text, his pieces use contradictions between content, typography, and composition to uncover volatile topics. Ranging from performance and video to textile, sculpture, painting, and installation. Kelley has adopted various styles that allow him to constantly shift personas, and to expose a wide range of prejudices and myths.
Download or read book Mike Kelley written by Mike Kelley and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harald Falckenberg, one of the most important collectors of Mike Kelley's works, gives in his essay a detailed overview over the various periods in the development of this artist.In detail Falckenberg investigates the influences of the art-market on Kelley's production and the reasons for the suicide of the artist in January, 2012.Beside documentary photographs of important exhibitions of Mike Kelley between 1982 and 2011, and reproductions of seminal works from various periods the book offers numerous stills from the legendary videos by and/or with Mike Kelley, such as Banana Man (1983), Heidi (1992) in collaboration with Paul McCarthy, EVOL (1984) by Tony Oursler, and Sir Drone (1989) by Raymond Pettibon.This book is published on the occasion of a tribute exhibition to Mike Kelley in collaboration with the LUMA Foundation at the 19th Annual Watermill Centre Summer Benefit, Long Island, New York, 28 July – 16 September 2012.
Download or read book The Uncanny written by Mike Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erweiterte Neuauflage des legendären Arnheim-Katalogs von 1993 in zwei Auflagen: Im März die rein englische Ausgabe anlässlich der Ausstellung in der Tate Liverpool, im Juli 2004 eine Ausgabe mit deutschem Textanhang mit einem zusätzlichen Interview mit Mike Kelley anlässlich der Ausstellung im Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien. Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Juli 2004
Download or read book Mike Kelley written by Elisabeth Sussman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A raging satirist, Kelley uses Conceptual Art to forge a series of enormously inventive works that challenge prevailing notions of taste, influence, moral authority, social responsibility and art's transcendent function. Mike Kelley's art addresses the American social and psychological condition with such exquisite precision that it often frightens or bewilders viewers." -Page 9.
Download or read book Find Your Artistic Voice written by Lisa Congdon and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist's unique voice is their calling card. It's what makes each of their works vital and particular. But developing such singular artistry requires effort and persistence. Bestselling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process of artistic self-discovery. Featuring advice from Congdon herself and interviews with a roster of established artists, illustrators, and creatives, this one-of-a-kind book will show readers how to identify and nurture their own visual identity, navigate the influence of artists they admire, push through fear and insecurity, and appreciate the value of their personal journey.
Download or read book Robert Storr written by Robert Storr and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 1405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Interviews' collates, in a single volume, the major body of interviews conducted by the revered American critic and curator Robert Storr, encompassing engaging discussions with some of the most renowned names in the artworld over the last two centuries. The book features nearly 30 illustrated interviews with artists and curators, including Gerhard Richter,Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Murray, Harald Szleeman, Catherine David and Mike Kelley.The introduction by art historian and curator Francesca Pietropaolo precedes a conversation between herself and Storr in which they dissect the interview as a medium: discussing the ethics involved, the notion of technique and approach, alongside the limitations and difficulties of the process. 'Interviews' presents an important, stimulating chronicle of Storr's most essential discussions with an esteemed cast of interviewees.
Download or read book Memory Ware Wood Grain Carpet written by Mike Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Colored Pencil Manual written by Veronica Winters and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experienced artists looking to master a new medium will relish this comprehensive guide to using colored pencils by the author of How to Color Like an Artist. Step-by-step demonstrations with photos and directions explain shading, blending, color theory, more.
Download or read book Mike Kelley written by Mike Kelley and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, Mike Kelley devised the Educational Complex, an amalgam of every school he attended and of the house he grew up in, "with all the parts I couldn't remember left out"--a total environment, "sort of like the model of a Modernist community college." The blind spots in this model represent forgotten ("repressed") zones, and so are reconceived by Kelley as sites of institutional abuse, for which specific traumas were devised (each having their own video and sculptural component). For Kelley, this work marks the beginning of a series of projects in which pseudo-autobiography, repressed-memory syndrome and the reinterpretation of previous pieces become the tools for a poetic deconstruction of such complexes and the way we interact with and narrate them. Educational Complex Onwards, 1995-2008 is the first book to collect these works. Each project within the series is extensively documented by artist's texts and reference material, while essays by Diedrich Diederichsen, Howard Singerman and Anne Pontégnie examine the place of this body of work within Kelley's oeuvre.
Download or read book Battle Beyond Kurukshetra written by P.K. Balakrishnan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light from the fire burning afar mingled with the moonlight in Kurukshetra to create a terrible twilight. Scattered corpses ... broken chariots ... sporadic death cries ... prowling scavengers ... the battlefield stretched endlessly.The victorious Pāndava camps burst into deafening cheers amidst burning funeral pyres. The Great War was finally over. But soon enough, when everyone learns the truth about the hated enemy, Karna, that towering figure with the golden glow, another battle starts. Everyone stands stunned, forgetting to even cry. Torn by the guilt of fratricide, Yudhishtira becomes a recluse. Draupadi becomes restless: her tryst with reality begins. What seemed a justifiable end to an ignominious character completely overturns. Her pride for her husbands’ valour erodes. Life as she had understood slowly begins to lose meaning. This Malayalam classic centres on Karna, the most criticized yet admired character of the Mahabharata, treacherously killed by his half-brother Arjuna. His life story unfolds through the eyes of Draupadi, in flashbacks and tales she hears from those around her in the aftermath of the battle of Kurukshetra.
