Pay for your pleasures: Cultural critique in the work of Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon.
Item
-
Title
-
Pay for your pleasures: Cultural critique in the work of Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon.
-
Identifier
-
AAI3231978
-
identifier
-
3231978
-
Creator
-
Levine, Cary S.
-
Contributor
-
Adviser: Romy Golan
-
Date
-
2006
-
Language
-
English
-
Publisher
-
City University of New York.
-
Subject
-
Art History
-
Abstract
-
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of three artists working in Southern California since the 1970s. Using numerous mediums and employing strategies of the grotesque, caricature and perversion, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon each force the viewer into confrontation with his or her own expectations and assumptions, destabilizing some of Western culture's most entrenched ideals and social norms. Though they are hardly the first artists to attack such conventions, these artists offer a new, disenchanted form of critique---an acerbic cultural politics that operates against ideological dogmatism, essentialism and idealism, on both the Right and the Left. Their work embodies a profound shift in attitude, a disillusioned outlook characteristic of the post-sixties generation to which they belong. Examining this work through the lenses of popular culture, sociology, gender studies, cultural anthropology and psychology, this study distinguishes their tactics from those of their predecessors and contemporaries, while contextualizing this shift within the social and political history of the 1970s, 1980s and beyond.
-
Type
-
dissertation
-
Source
-
PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
-
degree
-
Ph.D.
