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Mike Kelley

Considered one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley's irreverent and visionary practice is explored in this first properly posthumous retrospective of his four-decade career and its key influence on the development of art since the 1970s.

Mike Kelley (Artist)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mike Kelley is a U.S. artist, known for his stitched doll bought objects. Kelley's work involves textile banners and carpets, and his output also includes drawings, objects, assemblage, collage, performance and video. He is often associated with the concept of abjection. Kelley was born in Wayne, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit in 1954. He was brought up with the city's music scene which spawned such bands as Iggy and the Stooges, and was a member of Destroy All Monsters. In 1976 Kelley graduated from the University of Michigan. He moved to Los Angeles in 1978 and attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he said he admired the work from some of his teachers, including John Baldessari, Laurie Anderson, David Askevold and Douglas Huebler

New Gothic Art

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. New Gothic Art is a contemporary art movement that emphasizes darkness and horror. The style began with the "Gothic" exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, curated by Christoph Grunenberg, which took place April 24 - July 6, 1997. This exhibit included work by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mike Kelley, Gregory Crewdson, Robert Gober, Jim Hodges, Douglas Gordon, Abigail Lane, Tony Oursler, Alexis Rockman, and Cindy Sherman. Gavin's 2008 book Hell Bound continued to theorize the existence of the movement. She has also referred to the style as "the art of fear." The term is associated with work by Banks Violette, David Noonan and Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, in particular, as well as Christian Jankowski, Marnie Weber, Boo Saville, Terence Koh, and Matthew Stone. Gavin also includes Olaf Breuning, Tal R, Dr Lakra, Abdul Vas, Joss McKinley, Jonathan Meese, Sue Webster, and Ricky Swallow. The artists involved often take inspiration from extreme metal, hardcore punk, motorcycle clubs, pornography, slasher films, and other elements of popular culture.

Geister / Ghosts

Ob als Schreckgespenst oder im Halloweenkostüm - Geister sind allgegenwärtig. Sei es, dass man ihnen eine eigene Existenz zuspricht oder sie als Manifestationen der gequälten Psyche erachtet: Sie erinnern uns an unterschwellige, beunruhigende und verdrängte Kräfte. Kein Wunder, dass Geister seit jeher auch die Kunst immer wieder heimsuchen. Die Publikation zeichnet die vielfältigen Spuren nach, die Geister in unserer visuellen Kultur hinterlassen haben. Thematisiert wird die Geschichte der Geisterdarstellung und -erforschung in Europa und den USA ab dem 19. Jahrhundert. Seither haben Künstlerinnen und Künstler in allen Medien die Geistersphäre zwischen Tod und Leben, Horror und Humor, Sichtbarem und Unsichtbarem erkundet. In der Kunst der letzten Jahrzehnte erscheinen Geister oft als Metaphern für alles Gewalttätige und Verdrängte, das uns heimsucht.

Nonmemory

The artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) worked with performance, installation, drawing and painting, video, sound, and sculpture. Drawing from historical research, mass cultural sources, psychological theory and Sex to Sexty, his artworks reference both high art and vernacular traditions.

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Stopgap Measures

Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays,interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artistMike Kelley (1954-2012) written over more than threedecades by the noted art historian and cultural critic JohnC. Welchman.Kelley's provocative career gave rise to some of the mostconceptually and materially diverse work of recent times-in performance, writing, painting, drawing, sculpture, banners,multimedia installation, appropriated objects andimages and video, as well as numereous collaborations.This volume includes reflections on specific works, and featuresa signature series of pathbreaking essays on Kelley'sinnovations in photography and writing as well as explorationsof major themes in his practice, research and thinking:physical comedy and verbal humor; memory; popularculture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny; imaginativeprojection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving;authorship and self-construction; and the artist's littleremarkedupon negotiation with the histories of and ideasabout Asia. The book concludes with new essays on Kelley'sengagement with animals and the nonhuman; and on therefrain disappearances that punctuate Kelley's career setin relation to specters of social catastrophe and nuclearannihilation.