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McDermott and McGough An Experience of Amusing Chemistry, Photographs, 1990-1890

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ISBN-10: 888158672X

ISBN-13: 9788881586721

Edition: 2007

Authors: Matthew Higgs, Enrique Juncosa, Nicola Lees, Se�n Kissane, Dublin Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham

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"People thought we were just Victorian queens who wanted to make little kitten paintings on pillows and be kitschy," quipped Peter McGough, one half of the collaborative duo McDermott & McGough, as he reminisced about the East Village art scene in the 1980s--where the artists met and honed their inimitable style--in a 2003 Artforum interview with Bob Nickas. The artists have since become known for their performative fusion of art and life--namely dressing like Victorian dandies 24 hours a day and embracing archaic photographic techniques such as palladium, gum, salt and cyanotype printing. They are not escapists, however, as Roberta Smith has pointed out. "The allusions to…    
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Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Charta
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Leather 
Pages: 224
Size: 9.75" wide x 12.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.850
Language: English

Clare Beaton worked at the BBC for eight years as an illustrator for children's television programs. Beaton has published nearly fifty books , including One Moose, Twenty Mice in 1998 and Mother Goose Remembers in 2000, both of which have attracted considerable praise.

Nicola Lees has developed documentaries, docudramas, multiplatform and reality programmes for network and cable channels, including the BBC and Discovery, Travel Channel, National Geographic and TLC in the USA. Nicola consults for international clients and is editor of www.tvmole.com dedicated to factual development. She is author of Greenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch.

A Note to the Reader
Ceci N'Est Pas L'Histoire
Salt Prints: 1865
20 Questions for the Artists
Cyanotypes
Palladium Prints & Les Recreations Scientifiques, 1884
Gum Bichromates
Biography, Exhibitions, List of Reproductions, &c