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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.
"Damaged Romanticism" features 15 internationally recognised
contemporary artists whose work, in painting, sculpture,
installations, and photography based media, belongs neither to a
style nor a traditional 'school', but is thematically linked by a
visual representation of how stubborn optimism, rather than
utopianism, triumphs in the face of daily adversity. In her opening
essay "Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion", Terrie
Sultan offers an overview of the concept behind the exhibition and
explains how the chosen works give form to contradictory sentiments
of disillusionment, and defiance.David Pagel, in Romanticism's
Aftermath, considers the role of Romanticism and Neoclassicism in
the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how 'damaged
romanticism' is a reinterpretation of this. The links between art
and film are further explored by Colin Gardner in the third essay,
From here to eternity. Preceding the main catalogue is a short
story by Nick Flynn, a crystal formed entirely of holes, a new work
of fiction written especially for this exhibition.
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Max Cole: Endless Journey
Max Cole; Introduction by Louis Grachos; Interview by David Pagel
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