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A bricoleur of uniquely American utopian/dystopian cosmologies, Jim
Shaw (born 1952) weds themes from American religious history with
motifs from 1960s and 70s counterculture, often coining
rubrics--such as his invented religion of "O"--or series under
which to unify these narratives. "My Mirage" is Shaw's earliest
sequence of this kind. Conceived between 1986 and 1991, arranged in
chapters and constituted of nearly 170 works--drawn, silk-screened,
photographed, sculpted, filmed or painted in a different style--"My
Mirage" recounts the wanderings of Billy, a white, middle-class
American sucked into the whirlwind of the 1960s and 70s
counterculture. An anxious and withdrawn youth consumed by
psychotic hallucinations, Billy joins a psychedelic pagan cult,
eventually and inevitably returning to the religion of his youth,
"reborn" as a fundamentalist Christian. Shaw's broad iconography
for this visual bildungsroman ranges from children's books to
contemporary art, religious literature and psychedelic poster art,
all juxtaposed en face--one image per page--to relay an associative
narrative progression. From the start, the project was intended for
the book format as its ideal incarnation, and this edition was
therefore created in close collaboration with the artist. "My
Mirage" offers one of Shaw's most concise statements on vernacular
culture and the wild polarities of religious life in postwar
America.
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