Binding: Hardcover
Description: It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents Baltimore home. Over the following decades Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema but also in visual art writing and performance. This major retrospective examines the artist's influential career through more than 160 photographs sculptures soundworks and videos he has made since the early 1990s. These works deploy Waters's renegade humor to reveal the ways that mass media and celebrity embody cultural attitudes moral codes and shared tragedy. Waters has broadened our understanding of American individualism particularly as it relates to queer identity racial equality and freedom of expression. In bringing bad taste to the walls of galleries and museums he tugs at the curtain of exclusivity that can divide art from human experience. Waters freely manipulates an image bank of less - than - sacred low - brow references Elizabeth Taylor's hairstyles his own self - portraits and pictures of individuals brought into the limelight through his films including his counterculture muse Divine to entice viewers to engage with his astute and provocative observations about society. This richly illustrated book explores themes including the artist's childhood and identity; Pop culture and the movie business; Waters's satirical take on the contemporary art world; and the transgressive power of images. The catalogue features essays by BM a Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman; art historian and activist Jonathan David Katz; critic curator and artist Robert Storr; as well as an interview with Waters by photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. Published in association with the Baltimore Museum of Art. Exhibition dates: The Baltimore Museum of Art: October 7, 2018 January 6, 2019 Wexner Center for the Arts: February 2 April 28, 2019
Title: John Waters Indecent Exposure
Author(s): Hileman Kristen
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520300477
Pages: 232 Pages, 200 Color Images
Publication Date: 10/16/2018
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs