Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions

Mousse Publishing, 2021. Softcover, 108pp., 5 x 7.75 inches. New A critical appraisal of Mike Kelley’s politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writings.  This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of Mike Kelley, assessing his personal philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley’s work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua’s transdisciplinary approach, Kelley’s oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics. ISBN: 9788867494163