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Title Statement Foul perfection : essays and criticism
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint) MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. : 2003.
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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, #65533;yvind Fahlstr#65533;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.
Preface p. viii Introduction p. ix Urban Gothic (1985) p. 2 Empathy, Alienation, the Ivar (1985) p. 14 Foul Perfection: Thoughts on Caricature (1989) p. 20 Hollywood Filmic Language, Stuttered: Caltiki the Immortal Monster and Rose Hobart (1992) p. 40 Filmic Regression: The Baby and Baby Huey (1992) p. 50 From the Sublime to the Uncanny: Mike Kelley in Conversation with Thomas McEvilley (1993) p. 58 Playing with Dead Things: On the Uncanny (1993) p. 70 Cross-Gender/Cross-Genre (1999) p. 100 Mekanik Destrukiw Kommandoh: Survival Research Laboratories and Popular Spectacle (1989) p. 122 Death and Transfiguration [on Paul Thek] (1992) p. 138 Dyspeptic Universe: Cody Hyun Choi's Pepto-Bismol Paintings (1992) p. 150 Marcel Broodthaers (1992) p. 154 Myth Science [on Oyvind Fahlstrom] (1995) p. 158 Shall We Kill Daddy? [on Douglas Huebler] (1997) p. 178 David Askevold: The California Years (1998) p. 194 Go West [on the art of John Miller] (1999) p. 206 Artist/Critic? [on the writings of John Miller] (2002) p. 220 Index p. 227