In a survey of Californian-based artist Mike Kelly, the author of this volume discusses with the artist his various aesthetic and symbolic strategies in both the American and In European contexts. Kelly's work is considered in the context of his anti-art predecessors since Dada and chronicles all of Kelly's work, from his earliest performances in the late 1970s to his large sculptural installations in the 1990s.

Author Biography

John C Welchman lectures in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California in San Diego. A noted art critic, he has written widely on twentieth-century art. Welchman's books include The Dada and Surrealist Word-Image (co-author, 1989), and Towards a Cultural Understanding: Studies of Visual Modernity (1995). Isabelle Graw is founder and Editor of the acclaimed international art magazine Texte zur Kunst, based in Cologne. Her writing on contemporary art has been published in many international art journals, including Parkett, Artforum and Flash Art. Anthony Vidler is Professor of Art History and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to several definitive volumes on the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century architecture, he is the author of the highly influential studies The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1994) and Warped Space: Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture (1999).