Foul Perfection by Mike Kelley

Foul Perfection by Mike Kelley

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, yvind Fahlstr m, 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.

Mike Kelley was born in Detroit and lives in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout the world, include Tate Liverpool (2004), MACBA Barcelona (1997), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1993).John Welchman is professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of several books on Mike Kelley as well as Invisible Colors: A Visual History of Titles, published by Yale University Press.

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ISBN 13	9780262611787
ISBN 10	0262611783
Title	Foul Perfection
Author	Mike Kelley
Series	Foul Perfection
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2003-06-20
Number of pages	258
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