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John Waters - Indecent Exposure (Hardcover)
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John Waters - Indecent Exposure (Hardcover)
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It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his
first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the
following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an
uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in
visual art, writing, and performance. This major retrospective
examines the artist's influential career through more than 160
photographs, sculptures, soundworks, and videos he has made since
the early 1990s. These works deploy Waters's renegade humor to
reveal the ways that mass media and celebrity embody cultural
attitudes, moral codes, and shared tragedy. Waters has broadened
our understanding of American individualism, particularly as it
relates to queer identity, racial equality, and freedom of
expression. In bringing "bad taste" to the walls of galleries and
museums, he tugs at the curtain of exclusivity that can divide art
from human experience. Waters freely manipulates an image bank of
less-than-sacred, low-brow references-Elizabeth Taylor's
hairstyles, his own self-portraits, and pictures of individuals
brought into the limelight through his films, including his
counterculture muse Divine-to entice viewers to engage with his
astute and provocative observations about society. This richly
illustrated book explores themes including the artist's childhood
and identity; Pop culture and the movie business; Waters's
satirical take on the contemporary art world; and the transgressive
power of images. The catalogue features essays by BMA Senior
Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman; art historian and
activist Jonathan David Katz; critic, curator, and artist Robert
Storr; as well as an interview with Waters by photographer Wolfgang
Tillmans. Published in association with the Baltimore Museum of
Art. Exhibition dates: The Baltimore Museum of Art: October 7,
2018-January 6, 2019 Wexner Center for the Arts: February 2-April
28, 2019
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