Jim Shaw
$138.64
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2019
Summary
Blending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi-layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw (b.1952) creates rich, dream-like worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the artist’s oeuvre inter-relates, this substantial monograph argues that the artist’s seemingly disparate series actually function together to present a lucid and insightful portrait of America today.Emerging out of the long West-Coast shadows of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848223288 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848223285 |
| Author: | David Pagel |
| Publisher: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.04kg |
| Dimensions: | 280mm x 240mm |
| Series: | Contemporary Painters Series |
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Critics Review
‘After 40 years of following the spectacular deluge of creativity that is Jim Shaw, I have come to believe that he has accumulated a precise and accurate depiction of the very dark and beautiful heart of America. Between the covers of this illuminating book […] lies the proof.’ - Tony Oursler‘This monograph is a splendid rabbit-hole into one of the great dissident Wonderlands ever to erupt from 20th-century middle-American discontent. Jim Shaw’s phantasmagoria is full of a conspiratorial acuity and verve that grow more prescient with each new political nightmare.’ - Jonathan Lethem
About The Author
David Pagel
David Pagel is an art critic and curator. He has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times since 1991, where he has published more than 2000 reviews, features, and interviews. Pagel is on the faculty of Claremont Graduate University and an adjunct curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. Pagel was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Contemporary Arts Criticism in 1990 and was a Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia in 2002. He is the author of Unfinished Business: Paintings from the ‘70s and ‘80s by Ross Blecker, Eric Fischl, and David Salle (2016).
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