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Paul McCarthy

• Phaidon • ISBN Not provided

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Paul McCarthy

• Phaidon • ISBN-13 9783775739320

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Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetic limbs and condiments that stand in for bodily fluids.

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Publisher: Phaidon
1945

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Contributor: the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetic limbs and condMovement: Postmodernism

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Category: 20th Century ArtCategory: 21st Century ArtCategory: American Cultural CriticismCategory: Contemporary SculptureCategory: Installation ArtCategory: Performance ArtCategory: Phaidon PressCategory: Contemporary Art

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