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Paul McCarthy - Revised and Expanded Edition (Contemporary Artists Series)
Ralph Rugoff
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Description for Paul McCarthy - Revised and Expanded Edition (Contemporary Artists Series)
Hardcover. Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Series: Contemporary Artists Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 250 x 30. .
Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetic limbs and condiments that stand in for bodily fluids. These works have been variously deployed: through live actions, often documented on video, and more recently in outsized figures and artificial rural environments, combined in overtly sexual ways. McCarthy's ... Read more
Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetic limbs and condiments that stand in for bodily fluids. These works have been variously deployed: through live actions, often documented on video, and more recently in outsized figures and artificial rural environments, combined in overtly sexual ways. McCarthy's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Contemporary Artists Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780714868936
SKU
V9780714868936
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About Ralph Rugoff
Ralph Rugoff is Director of London's Hayward Gallery and Artistic Director of the 13th Lyon Biennale. Kristine Stiles is Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and has contributed to numerous books on art. Robert Storr is Dean of the School of Art at Yale University. Former ... Read more
Reviews for Paul McCarthy - Revised and Expanded Edition (Contemporary Artists Series)
McCarthy teaches us to acknowledge that we are mortal and split by speaking. His work is death (of the ego) and abject resurrection. -Michael Cohen, Flash Art The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for specialists but also interesting for casual readers. It makes these ... Read more