Mike Kelley and Surrealism: monkeys, frogs, dogs and Mauss

This paper reads the 1980s and 1990s soft toy and sock-monkey installations of multimedia artist Mike Kelley in relation to surrealism. Using Hal Foster’s comments on abject art - of which Kelley is often considered an exponent - I consider the extent to which Kelley’s work desublimates and makes available as ‘affect’ some of the structures of feeling, and structuring feelings, of the capitalist lifeworld. I compare Kelley’s work to its surrealist antecedents and judge the political efficacy of that avant-garde against his postmodern practice. While this essay uses writers like Freud and Marx, alongside Breton, Bataille and Kelley himself, it is Marcel Mauss’s well-known theory of the gift that takes centre stage in reckoning the social and political significance of Kelley and his use of surrealist discourse

Alumni Profile

Feature about a Linfield alumnus or alumna. In this issue, Elizabeth (Dozier) Kelley \u2702: Advice from the White House

J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City (2013), edited by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Gerard Hynes.

J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City (2013), edited by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Gerard Hynes. Book Review by Kelley M. Wickham-Crowle

Granite Staters Split On Races In First And Second Congressional Districts 4/26/2012

The elections for New Hampshire’s U.S. Representatives remain wide open. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Kelley Ayotte continue to receive generally positive favorability ratings

Sonia Kelley v. Wayne Kelley : Reply Brief

Appeal from a Decree of Divorce Consolidated with an Appeal from an Order for Contempt and Ruling on Pending Motions Entered by the Second Judicial District Court for Davis County, State of Utah Honorable Rodney S. Pag

Thomas Kelley

Thomas Kelley\u27s work investigates, or as he prefers, mines errors in precession in pursuit of new perspectives. In his conversation with DATUM, he discusses his recent work as a resident of the American Academy in Rome, and his practice, Norman Kelley