Entries (RSS) Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People
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Jake and Dinos Chapman are among the most important figures to have emerged from the ‘YBA’ (Young British Artist) generation in the 1990s. Over the past decade they have built up an international reputation for work through which they have confronted some of the most troubling issues of our time. These have included the endless human capacity for warfare and violence; plastic surgery, genetic manipulation and cloning; the instability of moral and ideological belief systems; and the assumed asexuality and innocence of children. The Chapmans’ critical reception has often been overshadowed by sensationalism and the media’s response to the artists’ shock tactics and generous use of cheap horror effects. For the first time this book will present works from all phases of their career, including sculpture, installation, drawing and prints, and engage a variety of critical voices to the art historical contect of their work, as well as the themes and concerns that continue to underpin it. Tate Liverpool director Christoph Grunenberg’s essay provides an overview of the artists’ career while other authors examine themes including use of shock in contemporary art, the aesthetics of ugliness, carnival excess and foul language. Key works including Great Deeds Against the Dead (1994) and Disasters of War (1995) and the works exhibited in the Turner Prize exhibition in 2003, Sex and Death, will be illustrated alongside newly created works and others never reproduced before. A new interview with the artists completes what will be the most extensive examination of the work fo the Chapman brothers yet published. Christoph Grunenberg is the director of Tate Liverpool. Tanya Barson is a curator at Tate Liverpool. Dave Beech is an artist, a member of the Free Collective, and a regular contributor to Art Monthly Chris Turner is an editor of Cabinet magazine and the author of Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How Renegade Europeans Conceived the American Sexual Revolution and Gave Birth to the Permissive Society. Clarrie Wallis is a curator at Tate Britain. Price (ZA) R440.00 |
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