Pope.L
Subtitle: Showing Up to Withhold
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 10, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780226200064
Description: Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in a range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, Pope.L pokes fun at and interrogates American society's pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society. Other favorite Pope.L targets are squeamishness about the human body and the very possibility of making meaning through art and its display.
Notes: Source title: Pope.L: Showing Up to Withhold