Mike Kelley

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MIKE KELLEY: ARENAS
Text by Cary Levine.
SKARSDEDT
ISBN: 9781616237189 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2011
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MIKE KELLEY: EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX ONWARDS 1995-2008
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829808 | US $70.00
Pub Date: 1/31/2010
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MIKE KELLEY
Artwork by Mike Kelley.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883754031 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 3/2/2000
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MIKE KELLEY
PRESTEL
ISBN: 9783791352411 | US $75.00
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MIKE KELLEY: MEMORY WARE, WOOD GRAIN, CARPET
Edited by Emi Fontana.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9782940271658 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 3/15/2005
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MIKE KELLEY: THE UNCANNY
Essays by Mike Kelley, Christoph Grunenberg.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883757988 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 5/2/2004
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MIKE KELLY: A CONVERSATION
Artwork by Mike Kelley. Edited by Thomas Kellein.
CANTZ
ISBN: 9783893222612 | US $14.95
Pub Date: 7/2/1996
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Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley: Arenas

Text by Cary Levine.
Published by Skarsdedt

Mike Kelley’s Arenas series of the late 80s and early 90s mark a shift away from the artist’s performance-oriented activity and towards a new sculptural dexterity, in which cultural resonance is elicited from an eerie reframing of everyday objects. First exhibited in 1990 at Metro Pictures, the Arenas are comprised of stuffed animals arranged around the edges of blankets (or occasionally posed isolate in their center). Ten or twenty such toys in such groupings might convey a cheery childhood picnic scenario, but Kelley rarely selects more than five or six, and places them carefully so that their cuddliness and their capacity to comfort is entirely canceled out. Instead, we encounter the toy as a commodity entity—a mass-manufactured product positioned to enter into play but far from inviting it. Skarstedt’s exhibition of seven of the eleven Arenas is here recorded in superb installation shots and with critical commentary.

Mike Kelley: Educational Complex Onwards 1995-2008

Edited by Anne Pontégnie. Text by Mike Kelley, Anne Pontégnie, Diedrich Diederichsen, Howard Singerman.
Published by JRP|Ringier

In 1995, Mike Kelley devised the Educational Complex, an amalgam of every school he attended and of the house he grew up in, "with all the parts I couldn't remember left out"--a total environment, "sort of like the model of a Modernist community college." The blind spots in this model represent forgotten ("repressed") zones, and so are reconceived by Kelley as sites of institutional abuse, for which specific traumas were devised (each having their own video and sculptural component). For Kelley, this work marks the beginning of a series of projects in which pseudo-autobiography, repressed-memory syndrome and the reinterpretation of previous pieces become the tools for a poetic deconstruction of such complexes and the way we interact with and narrate them. Educational Complex Onwards, 1995-2008 is the first book to collect these works. Each project within the series is extensively documented by artist's texts and reference material, while essays by Diedrich Diederichsen, Howard Singerman and Anne Pontégnie examine the place of this body of work within Kelley's oeuvre.

Mike Kelley: Memory Ware, Wood Grain, Carpet

Edited by Emi Fontana.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Memory Ware, Wood Grain, Carpet: these three series are brought together for this insightful publication. Kelley consciously presents a nexus of works whose similar surface treatments and presentation inevitable evoke Modernist painting history. Emi Fontana writes: “Popularly known as the master of exercises in garbage style, Kelley is in reality Mr. Clean. He situates his output within a wider system, that of recent Modernist art history, appropriating Modernism's structures, acting from within but without exercising the appropriational coldness common to the gestures of many American artists of his generation.” 53 images present Kelley's most recent works in vivid color.

Mike Kelley: The Uncanny

Essays by Mike Kelley, Christoph Grunenberg.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Taking Freud's idea of the Uncanny as a starting point, artist Mike Kelley plays Sunday curator and presents work by Jasper Johns, Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons, Tony Oursler, and others (reprinted from a 1993 catalogue), plus photos of chewing gum wrappers, postcards, record covers, and toys, all connected to ideas of youth and the Uncanny.

Mike Kelley

Sublevel: Dim Recollection Illuminated by Multicolored Swamp Gas

Artwork by Mike Kelley.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Mike Kelly: A Conversation

Artwork by Mike Kelley. Edited by Thomas Kellein.
Published by Cantz

How Mike Kelley's work has evolved and where it is going since his dramatic debut on the international art scene is the subject of this small-format book, published as part of Cantz's series dedicated to contemporary artists.

Mike Kelley

Published by Prestel

This thematic retrospective catalog is the most comprehensive volume ever published on the iconoclastic American artist Mike Kelley.

From the mid-1970s, Mike Kelley assembled an incredibly diverse and often controversial body of work. A multidisciplinary impresario, he created works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, installation, and performance art that managed to be at once shocking yet humorous, complex yet accessible. This companion volume to a much-anticipated exhibition brings a fresh understanding to the artist’s work by seeking to address the more poetic aspects of Kelley’s work through Eva Meyer-Hermann’s unique curatorial approach. Here she presents individual works in new combinations that cross the boundaries of chronology, bodies of work, and former artistic project groups. Identifying themes such as architecture, language, identity, Informe, power, modernisms, nostalgia, and religion, the book represents ideas that have informed Kelley’s work throughout his career. As a result, the overarching lines of his oeuvre become visible and accessible. This book features essays, a fully annotated plate section, and a newly researched and revised biography and bibliography of Kelley’s work. The publication promises to be the definitive work on the artist.