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Pay for Your Pleasures
Cary Levine
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Description for Pay for Your Pleasures
Hardcover. Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon - these Southern California artists formed a "bad boy" trifecta. Showing how their work rethinks transgressive art practices in the wake of the 1960s, this book argues that their collaborations as well as their individual enterprises make them among the most compelling artists in Los Angeles. Num Pages: 224 pages, 24 colour plates, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 213 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1070.
Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon - these Southern California artists formed a "bad boy" trifecta. Early purveyors of abject art, the trio produced work ranging from sculptures of feces to copulating stuffed animals, and gained notoriety from being perverse. Showing how their work rethinks transgressive art practices in the wake of the 1960s, "Pay for Your Pleasures" argues that their collaborations as well as their individual enterprises make them among the most compelling artists in the Los Angeles area in recent years. Cary Levine focuses on Kelley's, McCarthy's, and Pettibon's work from the 1970s through the 1990s, plotting ... Read more
Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon - these Southern California artists formed a "bad boy" trifecta. Early purveyors of abject art, the trio produced work ranging from sculptures of feces to copulating stuffed animals, and gained notoriety from being perverse. Showing how their work rethinks transgressive art practices in the wake of the 1960s, "Pay for Your Pleasures" argues that their collaborations as well as their individual enterprises make them among the most compelling artists in the Los Angeles area in recent years. Cary Levine focuses on Kelley's, McCarthy's, and Pettibon's work from the 1970s through the 1990s, plotting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226026060
SKU
V9780226026060
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About Cary Levine
Cary Levine is assistant professor of contemporary art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Reviews for Pay for Your Pleasures
"This is an extremely important and long-overdue analysis of the work of three key American artists. Cary Levine sets up a seductive context - his discussion of the alternative music scene of the 1970s is nothing if not a compelling form of music journalism - so that he can then drag us through the literal and metaphorical gore and excrescences ... Read more