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{"authorDescription":"Survey by Ralph Rugoff, Interview by Kristine Stiles, Focus by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Artist's Choice text by Jean-Paul Sartre, Writings by Paul McCarthy","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":[],"date":"","editionId":10822,"guid":"b71035d1-2a26-4055-9f31-09655cc3cd43","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"55.00","show":false},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"59.95","show":false},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"39.95","show":false},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"27.95","show":false},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"0.00","show":false},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"45.00","show":false}},"related":[],"sku":"9780714835525","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Paperback","colIlls":"120","extent":"160","language":"English","lenInch":"11 3/8","lenMm":"290","weightKilo":"1.01","widthInch":"9 7/8","widthMm":"250"},"status":false,"subtitle":" ","title":"Paul McCarthy","uri":"","webAuthorDescription":"Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery in London.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eKristine Stiles is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art, Art History \u0026amp; Visual Studies at Duke University.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eGiacinto Di Pietrantonio is Director of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Bergamo.","webDescription":"","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"\u003cp\u003eLos-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. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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. This is the first comprehensive survey of over twenty years of work by a profoundly influential artist whose work is in the collections of the world's most important museums.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRalph Rugoff, curator, critic and author of \u003cem\u003eCircus Americanus\u003c/em\u003e, has created an important critical framework for contemporary West Coast art. In the Survey he identifies key themes in McCarthy's oeuvre and sets them within a broader cultural context. Expert on live arts and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eTheories and Documents of Contemporary Art\u003c/em\u003e, Kristine Stiles talks with the artist about his performances. Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, celebrated for his writings in \u003cem\u003eFlash Art \u003c/em\u003eand his curating of public art projects in Italy, focuses on McCarthy's Pinocchio Pipenose Householddilemma, a nineteenth-century tale told in a post-Disney world. For the Artist's Choice, McCarthy has spliced together various fragments from Jean-Paul Sartre's \u003cem\u003eNausea\u003c/em\u003e, creating his own non-linear rendition of this classic existential novel. The book also includes interviews and previously unpublished notes and poems towards sculptures, performances and videos.\u003c/p\u003e","webReviews":"'The first comprehensive survey of over 20 years of work, this excellent publication explores McCarthy's Disneyesque installations and slapstick performances.' \u003cem\u003e(Stills)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The boldest, best executed, and most far-reaching publishing project devoted to contemporary art. These books will revolutionize the way contemporary art is presented and written about.' \u003ci\u003e(Artforum) \u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for specialists but also interesting for casual readers, it makes these books a must for the library of anyone who cares about contemporary art.' \u003ci\u003e(Time Out) \u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A unique series of informative monographs on individual artists.' \u003ci\u003e(The Sunday Times) \u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"Covers the taboo-breaking work of this influential American artist."}