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Jim Shaw : my mirage / [editors, Lionel Bovier & Fabrice Stroun].
- Title
- Jim Shaw : my mirage / [editors, Lionel Bovier & Fabrice Stroun].
- Author
- Shaw, Jim, 1952-
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- 215 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 26 cm.
- Summary
- My mirage" (1986-1991) is the first major body of work by Jim Shaw (*1952), an artist from Los Angeles who started exhibiting in the late 1970s. Composed of nearly 170 pieces - each one drawn, silk-screened, photographed, sculpted, filmed or painted in a different style - "My Mirage" recounts the wandering of Billy, a white, middle-class American sucked into the wirlwind of the sixties and seventies. He is a story of unceasing failure. After an anxious childhood, Billy later withdraws from the guilt-wracked spasms of adolescence in order to lose himself in a psychedelic utopia, which soon becomes a nightmare. In the depth of a psychotic hallucinations, he follows a woman who he worships into a pagan sect, before finally returning to the religion of his youth, "reborn" as a fundamentalist Christian. Each piece appropriates an image taken from an extremely broad iconographic field ranging from children's book to contemporary art and including comics, religious literature and psychedelic posters.
- Alternative Title
- My mirage
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 3037641878
- 9783037641873
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries