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Title
More
Love
Hours
Than
Can
Ever
Be
Repaid
.
Creator
Kelley, Mike (American sculptor, performance artist, and installation artist, born 1954)
Date
1987
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Postmodern
Contemporary
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Mixed media
Imagery
Symbolism (artistic concept)
Symbols
Childhood
Culture
Material culture (genre)
Materialism
Capitalism
Social issues
Social psychology
Families
Emotion
Gifts
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Soft toys
Stuffed toys
Toys (recreational artifacts)
Animals
Dolls
Cloth dolls
Subject
Sculpture
Mixed media
Symbols
Childhood & youth
Social aspects
Social values
Capitalism
Families
Gifts
Stuffed animals (Toys)
Toys
Animals
Dolls
Description
"The
title
of this
work
powerfully
conveys
the
emotional
blackmail
tied
up
with
certain
instances
of
toy-making
or
giving
.
Alongside
imagery
relating
to
childhood
,
Kelley
often
explores
adolescent
subcultures
,
fads
, and
obsessions
. His
work
implies
a
critique
of the
debased
cultural
forms
and
unfulfilled
needs
that
advanced
capitalist
systems
create.
"
(Caption
,
p.226)
; "In
California
a
vein
of
Performance
and
Installation
Art
courting
related
themes
of
bodily
excess
and
social
malfunction
had
long
been the
province
of
artists
such
as
Paul
McCarthy
and
Mike
Kelley
. The
latter's
iconography
of
adolescent
anomie
,
manifested
in his
tacky
knitted
hippy
blankets
or
felt
banners
,
matched
Koons's
valorization
of
debased
taste
.
However
, the
soiled
stuffed
toys
which
he
hung
in
claustrophobic
clusters
or
scattered
in
galleries
were
redolent
of
dysfunctional
families
or
emotional
surrogacy
and
thus
read
as
direct
ripostes
to
Koons's
pristine
replications
of
toys.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.225-226)
Material
Handmade stuffed animals and afghans sewn on canvas backing
Canvas
Textiles
Cloth
Stuffed toys
Afghans (throws)
Thread
Mixed media
Technique
Sewing (process)
Toy making
Dollmaking
Work Type
Sculpture
Mixed media
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.226, fig.120)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artist/Metro Pictures, New York.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-26.jpg
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