Mike Kelley

by Graw, Isabelle; Vidler, Anthony; Bataille, Georges

• ISBN13: 9780714838342
• ISBN10: 0714838349
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-02
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Description: Memory Ware, Wood Grain, Carpet: these three series, already experimented with by Mike Kelley in the past, are brought together in this insightful publication. Kelley consciously presents a nexus of works whose similar surface treatments and presentation inevitable evoke modernist painting history. According to Emi Fontana, "Popularly known as the master of exercises in garbage style, Kelley is in reality Mr. Clean. He situates his output within a wider system, that of recent modernist art history, appropriating modernism's structures, acting from within but without exercising the appropriational coldness common to the gestures of many American artists of his generation." Fifty-three images present Kelley's most recent works in vivid color.

Author Biography

John C Welchman lectures in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California in San Diego. A noted art critic, he has written widely on twentieth-century art. Welchman's books include The Dada and Surrealist Word-Image (co-author, 1989), and Towards a Cultural Understanding: Studies of Visual Modernity (1995).

Isabelle Graw is founder and Editor of the acclaimed international art magazine Texte zur Kunst, based in Cologne. Her writing on contemporary art has been published in many international art journals, including Parkett, Artforum and Flash Art.

Anthony Vidler is Professor of Art History and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to several definitive volumes on the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century architecture, he is the author of the highly influential studies The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1994) and Warped Space: Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture (1999).

Table of Contents

Interview	6	(36)
Isabelle Graw
Mike Kelley
Survey	42	(52)
John C. Welchman
Focus	94	(14)
Anthony Vidler
Artist's Choice	108	(10)
Georges Bataille
The Book of the Damned (extracts), 1919	112	(6)
Charles Fort
Artist's Writings	118	(26)
Mike Kelley
Destroy All Monsters: Liner Notes for 3 CD Box Set (extract), 1994	120	(4)
Foul Perfection: Notes on Caricature (extracts), 1989	124	(4)
In the Image of Man (extract), 1991	128	(2)
Heidi (excerpted from Playing With Dead Things), 1992	130	(2)
We Communicate Only Through Our Shared Dismissal of the Prelinguistic (extracts), 1995	132	(2)
Timeless/Authorless 4, 1995	134	(4)
Thoughts on the Aesthetics of Ufology (excerpted from Interview with M.A. Greenstein), 1997	138	(4)
A Stopgap Measure, 1998	142	(2)
Chronology	144	(14)
Bibliography, List of Illustrations	158