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Paul McCarthy - WS - CSSC Drawing, Painting, Performance (Hardcover)
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Paul McCarthy - WS - CSSC Drawing, Painting, Performance (Hardcover)
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Paul McCarthy (b. Salt Lake City, 1945) is one of the most
provocative and influential living voices in contemporary art. This
over-sized book - between a monograph and an artist book - was
conceived by the artist himself, and collects McCarthy's paintings
that represent the latest iteration of two major ongoing projects
within his multi-disciplinary practice: White Snow and Coach Stage
Stage Coach. In both series, archetypal American narratives are
pitched against human drives and desires, and examined with
McCarthy's characteristic wit and subversion. Informed by his own
tradition of improvised performance, scatological performative
practices are played out on the canvas in a charged, gestural
painting style motivated by material experimentation and
psychological processes. White Snow, usually a paragon of feminine
virtue, is depicted as a garishly made-up, despoiled protagonist.
Beginning as a suite of drawings in 2009, the series has since
evolved into a multi-platform narrative of McCarthy's own making.
In the WS paintings, McCarthy re-stages moments from his WS
performance and invents new scenarios entirely, recasting familiar
characters in unfamiliar guises. Coach Stage Stage Coach is
McCarthy's second long-term project, based on the film of the same
name, a 1939 American Western by John Ford. The Western genre is
central to American masculine identity, and here McCarthy
restructures reality using Hollywood's tactics. A repeated
castration theme is conveyed through textual references scrawled
across the paintings like a mantra: 'CUT OFF THE HEAD / CUT OFF THE
PENIS'. Together, the CSSC paintings function as unscripted
storyboards in which McCarthy reverberates between the central
Stage Coach motif and male icons of the film industry in a series
of sexual dreamscapes which form a starting point for a future
Coach Stage Stage Coach performance and film.
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