Mike Kelley, one of the leading Californian artists of the 1990s, is a proponent of abject or pathetic art, an anti-aesthetic, anti-heroic movement, which criticizes social and artistic issues through base humour and ridiculous banality. This book, a survey of Kelley's career, is the catalogue of a 1993 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with subsequent stops at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and the Los Angeles...