In this cultural suburban wasteland, there was only isolation and a sense of being betrayed. The strange brew of avant-garde experimentation and populism of late ’60s acid rock had failed in its social promises ... — artist Mike Kelley, Destroy All Monsters Cary Lorens photograph of Niagara as the Giant Sphinx (1975/2011) and an excerpt of a passage quoting Mike Kelley are reproduced from What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, the catalogue for the RISD Museum exhibition of the same name. (Publishers: Artbook / D.A.P. and the RISD Museum, 2014.) Exhibition info: risdmuseum.org/notes/148_what_nerve Purchase the catalogue at RISD Works: goo.gl/yv4k96
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:00:03 +0000
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