Softcover
1996 · London
by Rugoff, Ralph, Kristine Stiles, and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
London: Phaidon, 1996. Softcover. VG. Color-illutrated wraps with white lettering. 160 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetic limbs and condiments that stand in for bodily fluids. These works have been variously deployed: through live actions, often documented on video, and more recently in outsized figures and artificial rural environments, combined in overtly sexual ways. -Amazon.
(Inventory #: 164678)