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Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions by Mike Kelley (Artist); Laura López Paniagua; John Miller (Introduction by) A critical appraisal of Mike Kelley's politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writings. This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of the artist, assessing his philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley's work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua's transdisciplinary approach, Kelley's oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics.

Mike Kelley by John Miller Using architectural models to represent schools he attended, Mike Kelley's 1995 work, Educational Complex, presents forgotten spaces as frames for private trauma, real or imagined. In this book, John Miller offers an illustrated examination of this milestone work that marked a significant change in Kelley's practice. A "complex" can mean an architectural configuration, a psychological syndrome, or a political apparatus, and Miller approaches Educational Complex through corresponding lines of inquiry, considering the making of the work, examining it in terms of education and trauma (sexual or otherwise), and investigating how it tests the ideological horizon of art as an institution. Miller shows that in Educational Complex, Kelley expands his political and aesthetic focus, including not only such artifacts as generic forms of architecture but (inspired by the infamous McMartin Preschool case) popular fantasies associated with ritual sex abuse and false memory syndrome.

Mike Kelley by Ann Goldstein (Editor); Eva Meyer-Hermann (Editor); Lisa Gabrielle Mark (Editor); George Baker (Contribution by); Branden W. Joseph (Contribution by) This companion volume to a much-anticipated retrospective exhibition was conceived in close collaboration with Mike Kelley as an overview of his career--from his early Performative Sculptures and Objects to the "abject" sculptures made of old stuffed animals to the multi-part video installation Day Is Done to the ambitious Mobile Homestead, the artist's final work before his untimely passing in 2012. This book features essays and a fully annotated plate section, as well as a newly researched and revised exhibition chronology, performance history, videography, discography, and bibliography of Kelley's work.

Mike Kelley: 99,9998% Remaining by Mike Kelley (Artist); Harald Falckenberg (Editor, Text by) This book is published on the occasion of a tribute exhibition to Mike Kelley in collaboration with the LUMA Foundation at the 19th Annual Watermill Centre Summer Benefit, Long Island, New York, 28 July - 16 September 2012.

Mike Kelley: Arenas by Mike Kelley (Artist); Cary Levine (Text by) 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). Skarstedt's exhibition of seven of the eleven Arenas is here recorded with installation shots and with critical commentary.