{"product_id":"jim-shaw-hardcover","title":"Jim Shaw - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Pagel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi-layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw (b.1952) creates rich, dream-like worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the artist's oeuvre inter-relates, this substantial monograph argues that the artist's seemingly disparate series actually function together to present a lucid and insightful portrait of America today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmerging out of the long West-Coast shadows of California Assemblage by way of LA Pop and Conceptualism, Shaw's narrative-driven art marries art history and contemporary existence, as well as literature and comic books, ancient myths and modern movies, science and its variations in popular psychology -- not only blurring the boundaries between art and life, but cultivating that confusion to consider the relationship between fact and fiction that seems to define so much of the world we inhabit today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGiving contemporary viewers an effective way to think about art, this publication is an invaluable resource for those interested in painting today and its interaction with modern life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Pagel is an art critic and curator. He has been a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003ethe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e since 1991, where he has published more than 2000 reviews, features, and interviews. Pagel is on the faculty of Claremont Graduate University and an adjunct curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. Pagel was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Contemporary Arts Criticism in 1990 and was a Macgeorge \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia in 2002. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Business: Paintings from the '70s and '80s by Ross Blecker, Eric Fischl, and David Salle\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 11.2 x 9.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50335943000301,"sku":"9781848223288","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/EgKE1qj8bx9781848223288.webp?v=1785054248","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/jim-shaw-hardcover","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}