Matt Mullican: Subject Element Sign Frame World - Hardcover

Lynne Cook

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847839788 ISBN 13: 9780847839780

Publisher: Skira Rizzoli, 2013

Synopsis

The first major monograph on the rich and varied art of Matt Mullican.
 
Over the last four decades, Matt Mullican has created a complex body of work concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. His work takes form as drawing, collage, video, sculpture, performance, and installation, but Mullican is perhaps best known for his performances: these take place under hypnosis, allowing the artist to treat his own psyche as yet another medium. The drawings Mullican makes in this state--as an alter ego he refers to as "that person" --recall Surrealist experiments with automatic writing. In recent years, interest has surged in Mullican's work as younger artists and curators have rediscovered him.

This first major monograph on the artist, a group of renowned art world figures considers the expanse of Mullican's art--from the "bulletin boards" that combine notes, sketches, and archival photographs to the graphic language used to illustrate his idiosyncratic cosmology. Curator Lynne Cooke and art historian Hal Foster address various aspects of Mullican's multidisciplinary practice, while a roundtable conversation between Mullican, Conceptual artist John Baldessari, and curator Ulrich Wilmes completes this comprehensive survey. The in-depth discussion investigates Mullican's early days as a student--when Baldessari was his professor--and the development of his signature works.

About this title

About the Author

Lynne Cooke is the deputy director and chief curator at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton university. John Baldessari is an artist based in Los Angeles. Ulrich Wilmes is chief curator at Haus der Kunst in Munich.

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The first major monograph on the rich and varied art of Matt Mullican.

Over the last four decades, Matt Mullican has created a complex body of work concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. His work takes the form of painting, collage, video, sculpture, and installation, but Mullican is perhaps best known for his performances: these take place under hypnosis, allowing the artist to treat his own psyche as yet another medium. The drawings Mullican makes in this sta

Edition details

• Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847839788
• ISBN 13: 9780847839780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256