商品簡介
Milk and Melancholy by Kenneth Hayes explores the transition from late-conceptual to postmodern photographic art practices through an unusual trajectory: artists' representations of milk. Across an array of full-colour illustrations, Hayes maps the complex flow of this image and its extraordinary capacity for repetition and variation, tracing in his course the influence of scientific researcher Harold Edgerton's studios. While Edgerton's photographs were primarily concerned with the theoretical aspects of ballistics, Hayes looks at how artists have contested this scientific legacy and engaged with milk as a polysemantic signifier with complex, archaic, maternal, violent, uncanny, and sexual values and associations.
作者簡介
Kenneth Hayes is an architectural historian and a curator and critic of contemporary art. His work has appeared in such publications as Azure, Alphabet City, and Parachute.
