The city without organs : flux and fantasy in five L.A. artists

Author

Cohen, Michael

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Flash art. 1993, Num. 169, Vol. 26, 67-70, 5 ill. (3 col.)

ISSN

0394-1493

Abstract (en)

Contends that the works of five contemporary Los Angeles artists (Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Larry Johnson, Nancy Barton, Richard Hawkins) reflect the schizophrenic and fragmentary nature of the city of Los Angeles in the period of late capitalism. Sees the proliferation of signs, rupture of center, and dissonant representations of self, which are all characteristics of the work of these artists, as products of the decentered structural economies of Los Angeles as well as the schizophrenic flows described in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus. Relates the imagery and themes of these Los Angeles artists to three mechanisms which Deleuze and Guattari identify as being involved in these shizoid flows--the desiring-machines, the body without organs, and the nomadic subject.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- United States
• Art
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Los Angeles (CA, USA)
• Barton, Nancy, b.1957
• Johnson, Larry, b.1959
• Kelley, Mike, b.1954
• Shaw, Jim, b.1952
• Schizophrenia
• Guattari, Félix, b.1930
• Writings
• Cities
• Capitalism
• Society

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- États-Unis
• Art
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Los Angeles (CA, USA)
• Barton, Nancy, n.1957
• Johnson, Larry, n.1959
• Kelley, Mike, n.1954
• Shaw, Jim, n.1952
• Schizophrénie
• Guattari, Félix, n.1930
• Ecrits
• Ville
• Capitalisme
• Société

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00336817

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