Research Catalog

Title

Paul McCarthy : head space : drawings 1963-2019 / Aram Moshayedi and Connie Butler ; [contributors, Connie Butler, Catherine Damman, Bruce Hainley, Aram Moshayedi].

Publication

• Los Angeles, California : Hammer Museum, University of California ; Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2020.
• Florence, Italy : Conti Tipocolor S.p.A.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Moshayedi, Aram
• Butler, Cornelia H.
• Damman, Catherine
• Hainley, Bruce
• McCarthy, Paul, 1945-
• Hammer Museum, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution
• Prestel Verlag, publisher
• Conti Tipocolor (Florence, Italy), printer

Description

255 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles, photographs; 33 cm

Summary

A prolific social critic, Paul McCarthy is best known for his work in performance, installation, film, and sculpture. His works reference American cultural archetypes such as Disneyland, B movies, soap operas, comic books, and contemporary politics. His drawings and films skewer, often profanely, mass media and consumer-driven American society by pointing to its hypocrisy, double standards, and repression. McCarthy's work is also deeply influenced by European avant-garde art, especially by figures such as Joseph Beuys and Samuel Beckett, and Viennese Actionism. McCarthy's drawings share the same visual language as his three-dimensional works: violence, humour, sex, politics, art history, and popular culture. Featuring 50 years of works on paper in charcoal, pencil, pen and ink, and collage, this selection includes pieces from McCarthy's renowned "White Snow" series, his contributions to the "Plato in L.A." project at the Getty Museum, and recent sketches in which, unsurprisingly given the current political climate, McCarthy's gloves-off approach feels both necessary and inevitable. This book reveals an important aspect of his drawing techniques, and situates his works on paper as one of the most significant in contemporary art. Exhibition: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (02.02.-10.05.2020).

Alternative Title

Head space

Subject

• McCarthy, Paul, 1945- > Exhibitions
• McCarthy, Paul, 1945- > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. > Exhibitions
• McCarthy, Paul, 1945- > Criticism and interpretation
• McCarthy, Paul, 1945- > Themes, motives
• McCarthy, Paul, 1945-
• 1900-2099
• Drawing, American > 20th century > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Male artists > California > 20th century > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Drawing, American
• Art, American

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Essays.
• Interviews.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title organized and presented by Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 2-May 10, 2020.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English.

Contents

Director's foreword / Ann Philbin -- Acknowledgments / Aram Moshayedi and Connie Butler -- How to kill a nightmare / Aram Moshayedi -- Paul McCarthy: reach and spread / Catherine Damman -- Realism for the cause of future revolution / Bruce Hainley -- A conversation around drawing / Connie Butler and Paul McCarthy.

Call Number

JQG 20-664

ISBN

• 9783791359465
• 3791359460

LCCN

2020916122

OCLC

1129672460

Title

Paul McCarthy : head space : drawings 1963-2019 / Aram Moshayedi and Connie Butler ; [contributors, Connie Butler, Catherine Damman, Bruce Hainley, Aram Moshayedi].

Publisher

Los Angeles, California : Hammer Museum, University of California ; Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2020.

Manufacturer

Florence, Italy : Conti Tipocolor S.p.A.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Event

"Paul McCarthy: Head Space: Drawings 1963-2019" : February 2-May 10, 2020, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Language

Text in English.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Place of Publication

United States California Los Angeles.

Germany Bavaria Munich.

United Kingdom England London.

United States New York (State) New York.

Italy Tuscany Florence.

Added Author

Moshayedi, Aram, author.

Butler, Cornelia H., author, interviewer.

Damman, Catherine, author.

Hainley, Bruce, author.

McCarthy, Paul, 1945- artist, interviewee.

McCarthy, Paul, 1945- Works. Selections.

Hammer Museum, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.

Prestel Verlag, publisher.

Conti Tipocolor (Florence, Italy), printer.

Research Call Number

JQG 20-664