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Stopgap Measures: Writings on Mike Kelley

Stopgap Measures: Writings on Mike Kelley

Welchman, John C.

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $45.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 26, 2027

ISBN10: 3775756523
ISBN13: 9783775756525
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: Jan 26 2027
Pages: 384
Language: English

Kelley's kaleidoscopic career captured in three decades of essays and interviews

In Stopgap Measures, art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman presents a collection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the groundbreaking American artist Mike Kelley (1954-2012), spanning 30 years. These writings cover nearly all of Kelley's oeuvre, from his early performance pieces Confusion and Monkey Island to his final work, Mobile Homestead. The volume includes reflections on Kelley's innovations in photography, writing, physical comedy and verbal humor; memory, popular culture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny, imaginative projection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving; authorship and self-construction; and the artist's little-remarked negotiation with histories of and ideas about Asia. The book concludes with a new essay connecting the refrains that punctuate Kelley's career with specters of social catastrophe and nuclear annihilation.

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