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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Jim Shaw
    sub title: my mirage
  title info:
    title: My mirage
  name:
    name part: Shaw, Jim
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Bovier, Lionel.
  name:
    name part: Stroun, Fabrice.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
  abstract: My mirage" (1986-1991) is the first major body of work by Jim Shaw (*1952), an artist from Los Angeles who started exhibiting in the late 1970s. Composed of nearly 170 pieces - each one drawn, silk-screened, photographed, sculpted, filmed or painted in a different style - "My Mirage" recounts the wandering of Billy, a white, middle-class American sucked into the wirlwind of the sixties and seventies. He is a story of unceasing failure. After an anxious childhood, Billy later withdraws from the guilt-wracked spasms of adolescence in order to lose himself in a psychedelic utopia, which soon becomes a nightmare. In the depth of a psychotic hallucinations, he follows a woman who he worships into a pagan sect, before finally returning to the religion of his youth, "reborn" as a fundamentalist Christian. Each piece appropriates an image taken from an extremely broad iconographic field ranging from children's book to contemporary art and including comics, religious literature and psychedelic posters.
  note: [editors, Lionel Bovier & Fabrice Stroun].
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shaw, Jim
      name part: 1952-
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Graphic arts
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Comic books, strips, etc
    geographic: United States
  classification: 700.411.2
  identifier: 9783037641873
  identifier: 3037641878
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 110404
    record change date: 20151202150258.0
    record identifier: in00002748038