Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Sonja Teine Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 384 ISBN: 9783848431243
Описание
This book explores the most recent media artworks of contemporary American artist Jeremy Blake (1971-2007). He entered the ocean at Rockaway Beach, New York, one week after his partner of many years, Theresa Duncan, had also committed suicide. Blake’s time-based paintings have attracted many admirers in and beyond the art world. This book provides the first academic approach to Blake’s work and examines his unfinished film trilogy Wild Choir: Psychological portraits, as the artist called them, of fashion designer Ossie Clark (1942-1996), contemporary poet and singer David Berman (born 1967), and legendary punk-band manager Malcolm McLaren (1946-2010). The author focuses on the trilogy’s middle piece, Sodium Fox, based on a prose poem by Berman, and argues that it can be read as a postmodern fragmented crypto self-portrait of the artist. This interdisciplinary study is remarkable and ground-breaking in two senses: theoretical and methodical approaches of visual culture are applied and...
