Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-198) and index
Paul McCarthy : making car crashes -- Mike Kelley : a history of civilization -- Raymond Pettibon : a democracy of split personalities -- Bending gender -- Sex panic -- The kids aren't alright
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"... focuses on Kelley's, McCarthy's, and Pettibon's work from the 1970s through the 1990s, plotting the circuitous routes they took in their artistic development... discovers a common political strategy underlying their art that critiques both nostalgia for the 1960s counterculture and Reagan-era conservatism... shows how this strategy led each artist to create strange and unseemly images that test the limits of not only art but also gender roles, sex, acceptable behavior, poor taste, and even the gag reflex that separates pleasure from disgust." --back cover
Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon
Kelley, Mike,1954-2012
McCarthy, Paul,1945-
Pettibon, Raymond,1957-
Art, American-- California, Southern-- 20th century