A prolific social critic, Paul McCarthy is best known for his work
in performance, installation, film, and sculpture. His works
reference American cultural archetypes such as Disneyland, B
movies, soap operas, comic books, and contemporary politics. His
drawings and films skewer, often profanely, mass media and
consumer-driven American society by pointing to its hypocrisy,
double standards, and repression. McCarthy's work is also deeply
influenced by European avant-garde art, especially by figures such
as Joseph Beuys and Samuel Beckett, and Viennese Actionism.
McCarthy's drawings share the same visual language as his
three-dimensional works: violence, humour, sex, politics, art
history, and popular culture. Featuring 50 years of works on paper
in charcoal, pencil, pen and ink, and collage, this selection
includes pieces from McCarthy's renowned "White Snow" series, his
contributions to the "Plato in L.A." project at the Getty Museum,
and recent sketches in which, unsurprisingly given the current
political climate, McCarthy's gloves-off approach feels both
necessary and inevitable. This book reveals an important aspect of
his drawing techniques, and situates his works on paper as one of
the most significant in contemporary art.
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