Mike Kelley

Name: Mike Kelley
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SKU: 9781849768979
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Ghost and Spirit

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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 examines his dense and colourful body of work,... Read More

Format: Hardback

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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.

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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 examines his dense and colourful body of work, from early performances to his iconic stuffed toy works, and onward 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 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 that summon his lingering influence, this book captures the complexity and persistent relevance of Kelley's extraordinary practice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849768979

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Format: Hardback

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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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

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), as well as co-directing the opening programme for the Tate Tanks in 2012 titled, Art in Action. She has programmed numerous performance works at Tate since 2003, including works by Mark Leckey, Joan Jonas, Guy de Cointet, Jiri Kovanda and Sturtevant, and initiated the online project, Performance Room in 2011. Wood is author of Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle (2007, Afterall/MIT Press). A regular contributor to Afterall, Artforum and Mousse magazines, she has also written numerous catalogue essays, recently on Joachim Koester, Piotr Uklanski and Sung Hwan Kim. Fiontán Moran is Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.