
Mudman
The Odyssey of Kim Jones
MIT Press
Published on 23. February 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
159 pages
978-0-262-56224-9 (ISBN)
Description
Caked in mud, bearing a lattice appendage of sticks attached to his back,
wearing a headdress and a nylon mask, artist Kim Jones's alter ego Mudman began
appearing on city streets, on the beach, and in galleries around Southern California
in the 1970s. Jones emerged from the performance art movement, and the unsettling,
itinerant figure of Mudman connected the abstract, formal investigations of process-
and material-based artists with the intense physicality of body-based performances.
Mudman was both artistic persona and artistic construction. Part walking sculpture,
part shaman, part urban cult figure, Mudman became a powerful icon for an era in
some ways defined by the Vietnam war and a fascination with alternative lifestyles
and non-Western religious practices. Now living and working in New York City, Jones
has become known more recently for his War Drawings, exhaustively detailed pencil
and erasure drawings in which x-men and dot-men endlessly engage and
disengage.
Mudman is the first comprehensive survey of Jones's
performances, installations, and drawings from the 1970s to the present, documenting
both his artwork and his process. Published in conjunction with a retrospective of
Jones's work, Mudman includes essays that examine the artist's early career, the
relation of his work to male fantasies of conflict and the memory of trauma, and his
use of the palimpsest and metamorphosis in his drawings.
wearing a headdress and a nylon mask, artist Kim Jones's alter ego Mudman began
appearing on city streets, on the beach, and in galleries around Southern California
in the 1970s. Jones emerged from the performance art movement, and the unsettling,
itinerant figure of Mudman connected the abstract, formal investigations of process-
and material-based artists with the intense physicality of body-based performances.
Mudman was both artistic persona and artistic construction. Part walking sculpture,
part shaman, part urban cult figure, Mudman became a powerful icon for an era in
some ways defined by the Vietnam war and a fascination with alternative lifestyles
and non-Western religious practices. Now living and working in New York City, Jones
has become known more recently for his War Drawings, exhaustively detailed pencil
and erasure drawings in which x-men and dot-men endlessly engage and
disengage.
Mudman is the first comprehensive survey of Jones's
performances, installations, and drawings from the 1970s to the present, documenting
both his artwork and his process. Published in conjunction with a retrospective of
Jones's work, Mudman includes essays that examine the artist's early career, the
relation of his work to male fantasies of conflict and the memory of trauma, and his
use of the palimpsest and metamorphosis in his drawings.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
60 farbige Abbildungen, 59 s/w Abbildungen
60 color illus., 59 b&w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 0 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-56224-9 (9780262562249)
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Sugata Mitra is Chief Scientist with NIIT. He hastaught at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi;HCL Limited; The Technical University of Vienna,Austria; and United India Periodicals.
James Tooley is Professor of Education Policy at theUniversity of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Director ofthe E. G. West Centre.
Julie Joyce is Gallery Director of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at the California State University, Los Angeles.
Kristine Stiles is an artist and Associate Professor of Art History at Duke University.
Sandra Q. Firmin is Curator at the UB Art Gallery, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Pauline Dixon, PhD, is Research Coordinator for aproject studying private education for the poor indeveloping countries at the University of NewcastleUpon Tyne.
Parimala Inamdar heads the Design Lab at NIIT'sCenter for Research in Cognitive Systems. Her focusis in Learning Systems and User Experience Design inthe context of Minimally Invasive Education.
James Tooley is Professor of Education Policy at theUniversity of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Director ofthe E. G. West Centre.
Julie Joyce is Gallery Director of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at the California State University, Los Angeles.
Kristine Stiles is an artist and Associate Professor of Art History at Duke University.
Sandra Q. Firmin is Curator at the UB Art Gallery, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Pauline Dixon, PhD, is Research Coordinator for aproject studying private education for the poor indeveloping countries at the University of NewcastleUpon Tyne.
Parimala Inamdar heads the Design Lab at NIIT'sCenter for Research in Cognitive Systems. Her focusis in Learning Systems and User Experience Design inthe context of Minimally Invasive Education.
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