Foul Perfection

Essays and Criticism

Mike Kelley, John C. Welchman (University of California/San Diego)

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MIT Press
20 June 2003

Theory of art

Series: Writing Art

Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley.

The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy, and gender-bending.

This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls ""urban Gothic."" It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold,

yvind Fahlstr m, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.

By: Mike Kelley
Edited by: John C. Welchman (University of California/San Diego)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780262611787
ISBN 10: 0262611783
Series: Writing Art
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 20 June 2003
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mike Kelley is a Los Angeles-based artist, noise musician, and writer. He is a member of the graduate faculty in the M.F.A. program at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. John C. Welchman is Professor of Modern Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. He is the editor of Minor Histories- Statements, Conversations, Proposals, a collection of writings by the artist Mike Kelley (MIT Press).

Reviews for Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism

This collection proves that [Kelley] has not only helped write history but has had an effect on it. -Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum This collection proves that [Kelley] has not only helped write history but has had an effect on it. -Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum * Reviews *