Research Catalog

Title

Jim Shaw : my mirage / [editors, Lionel Bovier & Fabrice Stroun].

Author

Shaw, Jim, 1952-

Publication

• Zürich : JRP Ringier, [2011]
• New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
• ©2011

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bovier, Lionel.
• Stroun, Fabrice.

Description

215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

"My mirage" (1986-1991) is the first major body of work by Jim Shaw (born 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 whirlwind of the sixties and seventies. His 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 books to contemporary art and including comics, religious literature, and psychedelic posters.

Alternative Title

My mirage

Subjects

• Comic books, strips, etc > United States
• Graphic arts > United States
• Shaw, Jim, 1952- > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

The rabbit died -- The sowing of the hydra's teeth -- The land of milk and honey -- If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out -- Born again -- My mirage : a user's manual / Fabrice Stroun. Reading My mirage ; The regimen of the object ; The fabric of history.

ISBN

• 9783037641873
• 3037641878

OCLC

• ocn711831436
• 711831436
• SCSB-1614114

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library