{"product_id":"pay-for-your-pleasures-cary-levine-9780226026060","title":"Pay for Your Pleasures: Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon","description":"Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon--these Southern California artists formed a \"bad boy\" trifecta. Early purveyors of abject art, the trio produced work ranging from sculptures of feces to copulating stuffed animals, and gained notoriety from being perverse. Showing how their work rethinks transgressive art practices in the wake of the 1960s, \u003ci\u003e Pay for Your Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e argues that their collaborations as well as their individual enterprises make them among the most compelling artists in the Los Angeles area in recent years. Cary Levine focuses on Kelley's, McCarthy's, and Pettibon's work from the 1970s through the 1990s, plotting the circuitous routes they took in their artistic development. Drawing on extensive interviews with each artist, he identifies the diverse forces that had a crucial bearing on their development--such as McCarthy's experiences at the University of Utah, Kelley's interest in the Detroit-based White Panther movement, Pettibon's study of economics, and how all three participated in burgeoning subcultural music scenes. Levine discovers a common political strategy underlying their art that critiques both nostalgia for the 1960s counterculture and Reagan-era conservatism. He shows how this strategy led each artist to create strange and unseemly images that test the limits of not only art but also gender roles, sex, acceptable behavior, poor taste, and even the gag reflex that separates pleasure from disgust. As a result, their work places viewers in uncomfortable situations that challenge them to reassess their own values. The first substantial analysis of Kelley, McCarthy, and Pettibon, \u003ci\u003ePay for Your Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e shines new light on three artists whose work continues to resonate in the world of art and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cary Levine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022602606X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226026060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.20h x 8.70w x 0.80d","brand":"Cary Levine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064792330495,"sku":"9780226026060","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb0dc842-73b9-4116-8c04-59596f12a16f.jpg?v=1768671080","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pay-for-your-pleasures-cary-levine-9780226026060","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}