Paul McCarthy
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TextPublication details: . Phaidon Press 2016Description: 240 10.25 x 1.13 x 11.75 inchesISBN: - 9780714868936
- ARTS STI
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Arthshila Ahmedabad Cluster: 3M | ARTS/STI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BK00667 |
Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist. Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetic limbs and condiments that stand in for bodily fluids. These works have been variously deployed: through live actions, often documented on video, and more recently in outsized figures and artificial rural environments, combined in overtly sexual ways. McCarthy's work echoes that of European artists such as Joseph Beuys or the Viennese Aktionistes, but gives 'action art' a postmodern twist.
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