More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid.
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Title |
More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid. |
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Creator |
Kelley, Mike (American sculptor, performance artist, and installation artist, born 1954) |
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Date |
1987 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Postmodern
Contemporary |
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Subject |
Mixed media
Symbols
Childhood & youth
Social aspects
Social values
Capitalism
Families
Gifts
Stuffed animals (Toys)
Toys
Animals
Dolls |
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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) |
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Material |
Handmade stuffed animals and afghans sewn on canvas backing
Canvas
Textiles
Cloth
Stuffed toys
Afghans (throws)
Thread
Mixed media |
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Technique |
Sewing (process)
Toy making
Dollmaking |
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Work Type |
Mixed media |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.226, fig.120) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artist/Metro Pictures, New York. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-26.jpg |
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