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aesthetics
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Age Group_Uncategorized
art
Author_The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
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baloney
bawdy
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=ACXJ5
Category=AGA
Category=AGB
contemporary
COP=United States
correction fluid
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difference
discomfort
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exhibitions
forlesen
human body
humor
hypocrisy
installations
ketchup
Language_English
media
modern
nonfiction
obscenity
PA=Available
parody
performance
performativity
pretense
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
race
satire
sex
sexuality
social categories
society
softlaunch
squeamishness
vulgarity
writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780226200064
- Weight: 1219g
- Dimensions: 26 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 10 Oct 2014
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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I conoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, Pope.L pokes fun at and interrogates American society's pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society. Other favorite Pope.L targets are squeamishness about the human body and the very possibility of making meaning through art and its display. Published to accompany Pope.L's wonderfully inscrutable exhibition Forlesen at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, William Pope.L: Showing Up To Withhold is simultaneously an artist's book and a monograph.
In addition to reproductions of a number of his most recent artworks, it includes images of significant works from the past decade, and presents a forum for reflection and analysis on art making today with contributions by renowned critics and scholars, including Lawrie Balfour, Nick Bastis, Lauren Berlant, and K. Silem Mohammad.
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago is a contemporary art museum located on the University campus that is free and open to the public.
