
Jim Shaw
David Pagel(Author)
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published on 9. September 2019
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-84822-328-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 California Assemblage by way of LA Pop and Conceptualism, Shaw's narrative-driven art marries art history and contemporary existence, as well as literature and comic books, ancient myths and modern movies, science and its variations in popular psychology - not only blurring the boundaries between art and life, but cultivating that confusion to consider the relationship between fact and fiction that seems to define so much of the world we inhabit today.
Giving contemporary viewers an effective way to think about art, this publication is an invaluable resource for those interested in painting today and its interaction with modern life.
Emerging out of the long West-Coast shadows of California Assemblage by way of LA Pop and Conceptualism, Shaw's narrative-driven art marries art history and contemporary existence, as well as literature and comic books, ancient myths and modern movies, science and its variations in popular psychology - not only blurring the boundaries between art and life, but cultivating that confusion to consider the relationship between fact and fiction that seems to define so much of the world we inhabit today.
Giving contemporary viewers an effective way to think about art, this publication is an invaluable resource for those interested in painting today and its interaction with modern life.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations; 100 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 284 mm
Width: 243 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1035 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-328-8 (9781848223288)
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Person
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).
Content
Foreword, Barry Schwabsky; 1 The End is Here! (1978); 2 My Mirage (1985-91); 3 Untitled (Giant Face Paintings) (1991-2); Dream Drawings (1992-9); Fake Dream Drawings (1992-4); Other People's Dreams (1996); and Dream Objects (1995-present); 4 Oist Works (2002-13 and continuing); 5 Left Behind (2004-12); Cake Paintings (2008-12); and Anatomy Weird-ohs; 6 Stretched Muslin Paintings (2012-present); Notes; Selected Bibliography; Biography; Exhibitions; Works in Public Collections; Acknowledgements and Image Credits; Index