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Mike Kelley
Ghost and Spirit
Brief Description
Mike Kelley (1954-2012) is widely considered one of the most influential artists of our time, with an irreverent and visionary practice that spanned and mixed performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, photography, sound, text, and sculpture. Ghost and Spirit looks at his dense and colourful body of...
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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.
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.
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Mike Kelley (1954-2012) is widely considered one of the most influential artists of our time, with an irreverent and visionary practice that spanned and mixed performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, photography, sound, text, and sculpture.
Ghost and Spirit looks at his dense and colourful body of work, from early performances, to his iconic stuffed toy works, and on to his explorations of history, memory, and trauma as they haunt our experiences of school or family.
Asking prescient questions about how to exist among a world of media images, about the role of art and the artist, and about embodiment, Kelley adopted different personas and mediums, deliberately deflating his own status. From his own position as a white, heterosexual man in postmodern, capitalist America, he challenged assumptions about identity, class, and institutional authority.
Bringing together a range of diverse perspectives which summon his 'lingering influence' (to paraphrase the artist), this book captures the complexity and persistent relevance of Kelley's extraordinary practice.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781849768573
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 April 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tate Publishing
Contributors:
- Edited by Catherine Wood
- Edited by Fiontán Moran
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 170.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 304
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About the Author
Catherine Wood is Director of Programme at Tate Modern, and curator of contemporary art and performance. At Tate she has co-curated numerous exhibitions including The World as a Stage (2007), Pop Life (2010) and A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance (2012). She has programmed numerous performance works at Tate since 2003, including works by Mark Leckey, Joan Jonas, Guy de Cointet, Jiri Kovanda and Sturtevant. A regular contributor to Afterall, Artforum, and Mousse magazines. Fiontán Moran is Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.
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