| Artist: | Mike Kelley |
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| Title: | Eviscerated Corpse | |
| Date: | 1991 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Postmodernsim | |
| Movement: | Pathetic Art | |
| Materials: | stuffed animals | |
| Subject: one doll attached to another in a monstrous sausage chain, all stemming from the mother figure hanging on the wall; the grotesque body; pathetic, second best, less than ideal handmade dolls and toys as an allegory of debasement and perversion. Style: Doesn't make the dolls and toys himself; he buys them second hand in thrift stores; they are the cast-offs, stuffed dolls orpaned from their original home; de-contextualizes the readymade objects and then re-contextualizes them within the art that functions metaphorically as signs of the pathetic and abject (references to the body that are usually repressed). Context: late capitalistic, consumer-oriented society;Kelley shows the flip side of Jeff Koons's slick, glossy surfaces; he lifts the rock of society to see what dysfunctional things might be crawling underneath; the anti-heroic, anti-Sublime; grunge. | ||
