Published on occasion for his posthumous retrospective “Mike Kelley: Themes and Variations from 35 Years” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. This thematic retrospective catalogue is the most comprehensive volume ever published on the iconoclastic American artist Mike Kelley. From the mid-1970s, Mike Kelley assembled an incredibly diverse and often controversial body of work. A multidisciplinary impresario, he created works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, installation, and performance art that managed to be at once shocking yet humorous, complex yet accessible. Identifying themes such as architecture, language, identity, power, modernisms, nostalgia, and religion, the book represents ideas that have informed Kelley's work throughout his career. This book features essays, a fully annotated plate section, and a newly researched and revised biography and bibliography of Kelley's work. The publication promises to be the definitive work on the artist.
 
Publication date - 2013
Publisher - Prestel
Format - Hardcover
Dimensions - 30.5cm x 25cm
Pages - 399
Condition - Excellent.