{"product_id":"mike-kelley-1975-1994-works-medium-st-barthelemy-2006","title":"MIKE KELLEY, 1975–1994 Works, Me.di.um, St. Barthélemy, 2006","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMike Kelley — 1975–1994 Works\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nEdited by Richard Slovak\u003cbr\u003e\nText by Justin Lieberman\u003cbr\u003e\nMe.di.um, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies, 2006\u003cbr\u003e\nTNR-2026-0663\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17 × 21.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e\n88 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\nHardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n25 colour and 24 black-and-white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN 978-2-9526517-3-8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompact exhibition catalogue published following \u003cem\u003eMike Kelley: 1975–1994 Works\u003c\/em\u003e at Me.di.um, St. Barthélemy, a mini-retrospective deliberately restricting itself to the first two decades of Kelley's practice. The selection moves from the performance and drawing of the 1970s through his vernacular sculptures, found objects and stuffed-animal works of the late 1980s and early 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJustin Lieberman's accompanying essay proposes an unusual Kelley: not simply the exemplary Postmodern artist of appropriation, abjection and degraded culture, but an artist whose treatment of found toys, craft and discarded material remained deeply indebted to the formal conventions of Modernist sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe distinction is particularly clear in works such as \u003cem\u003eTwo Frogs and Two Cats\u003c\/em\u003e, 1990, reproduced here. Handmade toys arrive already carrying histories of labour, affection, ownership and eventual abandonment. Kelley does not erase those histories. He relocates them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gift becomes discarded property.\u003cbr\u003e\nDiscarded property becomes material.\u003cbr\u003e\nMaterial becomes sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe change occurs in placement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small but particularly concentrated publication from a period when Kelley's early work was being reconsidered alongside the increasingly monumental projects of his mature career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Light shelf and handling wear with rubbing and corner compression to boards; visible bumps at extremities. Internally clean from inspection. Issued without dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/the-new-rare-at-glue-book-fair-2026\"\u003eThe New Rare at Glue Book Fair 2026\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Me.di.um","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54696451670354,"sku":"TNR-2026-0665","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kelley_Mike.MikeKelley1975-1994Works.2006.jpg?v=1789197004","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/mike-kelley-1975-1994-works-medium-st-barthelemy-2006","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}