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Foul perfection : essays and criticism / Mike Kelley ; edited by John C. Welchman.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, c2003.Description: 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0262112701
  • 9780262276924
  • 0262611783
  • 9780585481098
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Contents:
Introduction / John C. Welchman -- Urban Gothic (1985) -- Empathy, Alienation, the Ivar (1985) -- Foul Perfection: Thoughts on Caricature (1989) -- Hollywood Filmic Language, Stuttered: Caltiki the Immortal Monster and Rose Hobart (1992) -- Filmic Regression: The Baby and Baby Huey (1992) -- From the Sublime to the Uncanny: Mike Kelly in Conversation with Thomas McEvilley (1993) -- Playing with Dead Things: On the Uncanny (1993) -- Cross-Gender/Cross-Genre (1999) -- Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh: Survival Research Laboratories and Popular Spectacle (1989) -- Death and Transfiguration [on Paul Thek] (1992) -- Dyspeptic Universe: Cody Hyun Choi's Pepto-Bismol Paintings (1992) -- Marcel Broodthaers (1992) -- Myth Science [on Oyvind Fahlstrom] (1995) -- Shall We Kill Daddy? [on Douglas Huebler] (1997) -- David Askevold: The California Years (1998) -- Go West [on the art of John Miller] (1999) -- Artist/Critic? [on the writings of John Miller] (2002).
Summary: Offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years; Contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic."; Contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, Öyvind Fahlström, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 06271

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / John C. Welchman -- Urban Gothic (1985) -- Empathy, Alienation, the Ivar (1985) -- Foul Perfection: Thoughts on Caricature (1989) -- Hollywood Filmic Language, Stuttered: Caltiki the Immortal Monster and Rose Hobart (1992) -- Filmic Regression: The Baby and Baby Huey (1992) -- From the Sublime to the Uncanny: Mike Kelly in Conversation with Thomas McEvilley (1993) -- Playing with Dead Things: On the Uncanny (1993) -- Cross-Gender/Cross-Genre (1999) -- Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh: Survival Research Laboratories and Popular Spectacle (1989) -- Death and Transfiguration [on Paul Thek] (1992) -- Dyspeptic Universe: Cody Hyun Choi's Pepto-Bismol Paintings (1992) -- Marcel Broodthaers (1992) -- Myth Science [on Oyvind Fahlstrom] (1995) -- Shall We Kill Daddy? [on Douglas Huebler] (1997) -- David Askevold: The California Years (1998) -- Go West [on the art of John Miller] (1999) -- Artist/Critic? [on the writings of John Miller] (2002).

Offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years; Contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic."; Contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, Öyvind Fahlström, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek.