INDEX Page numbers in boldface indicate illustrations. Abjection, xxiv, xxv, 16, 401, 408–409 subcultural, 66, 96, 120, 127, 128, 147 Abstraction, xxii, 60, 106, 131, 132, 166, 168, 342, value, 133 345, 392, 402 Ahrens, Carsten, 60 abstract expressionism, 64, 65, 89 Ajax (cleanser), 5, 7 abstract formalism, 66 Albers, Josef, 96 abstract surrealism, 66 Albright, Ivan, 102 biomorphic, 122, 342, 404 Alcatraz, 216 Abuse, xxi, xxiii, 61–62, 77, 105–106, 147, 158, 215, Aldrete, Sara, 87 414 216, 217, 260, 262, 264, 267, 269, 270, 274, 280, Aliens, xxiv, xxv, 215, 263, 267, 335, 342, 372, 374– 284, 288, 289, 316, 320, 333, 394, 406–407 375, 394–395, 400–411. See also UFOs recalled, 276 body types, 395 Acconci, Vito, 32, 220 childlike, 404–406 Adolescence, xx, 65 chupacabras (goat suckers), 395 Advertising, 8, 65, 86, 260, 261, 263, 268 “space brothers,” 401 Chiat/Day agency (Venice, CA), xxii, xxiii, 312, 314, 325 “unformed,” 403–404 Aesthetics, 17, 32, 62, 77, 79, 140, 165, 169, 217, 319, Allegory, xxv 320, 328–329, 400–411 America Dionysian, 227 North, 395, 406 junk, 176 South, 395 American Civil Liberties Union, 248 Area 51 (Nevada), 389 American Scientific Journal, 370 Arizona, 34 Amherst (Massachusetts), 369 Artaud, Antonin, 28 Amphibians, 286 Art Center College of Design (Pasadena), 276 Anatomy, 375 Artforum (magazine), 165 Anderson, Mikael, 340 Artists Space (New York), 94 Andes, 377 Art therapy, xxi Animation, xx Aryan, 287, 395 mainstream, 166 Asia, 120 office, 314, 325–326 Askevold, David, xx, 252 underground, 66 asteroid impaired (journal), 276 “weirdo” style, xx Astronomy, 387 workers’, 16–17 Atlantis, 386 Annals of Philosophy, 370 Augustine, Saint, 374 Ann Arbor (Michigan), xxi, 42, 65, 160, 176, 178, 258, City of God, 374 274. See also University of Michigan Aupetitallot, Yves, 118 Blues and Jazz Festival, 42 Automatism, 66 Antin, David, 112 Avant-garde, xviii, 32, 146, 165, 166 Antoine, Jean-Philippe, xxii Apollo (Greek god), 374 Bachelard, Gaston Appropriation, 94 The Poetics of Space, 321, 327, 329 Archaeology, 54 Bakunin, Mikhail, 24 Architecture, xiv, xxii–xxiii, 12, 16, 97–98, 104, 141, Baldwin, Alec, 299 269–270, 312–346 Balzac, Honoré de, 23 anthroposophical, 319 Bandura, Albert, 132, 133, 231 classical, 336 Barney, Mathew, 220 “cubbyhole,” 327 Barosh, Miyoshi, 42 deconstructive, 334, 336 Barry, Judith, 32 Egyptian, 336 Bartman, William S., 40 elastic, 284 Basel, Kunsthalle, 28 fantasy, 319 Bassinger, Kim, 299 functionalist, 319, 336 Bastide, Catherine, 138 INDEX gallery, 325 Bataille, Georges, xxiv, 25, 174, 248, 402 institutional, 328 Bates, Norman, 78 415 models, 152, 234, 238, 312, 316–322, 328–334 Baudelaire, Charles, 17, 24 pictorial, 244 Bauhaus, 127, 328, 394 postmodern, 334 Baziotes, William, 66 public, 131, 319 Beckman, Ericka, xx, 173 rock, 125 Blind Country (with Mike Kelley), 200 sci-fi, postapocalyptic, 334 Cinderella, 200 symbolic, 320 You the Better, 200 über-, 238 Beecroft, Vanessa, 220 utopian, 240, 319, 328 Belgium, 144, 152 Architecture New York (journal), 316 Bellow, Saul, 234 Arden, Roy, 292 The Victim, 240 Be Magazin, 384 Buddhism, 144, 152 Berkowitz, David, 17 Buffalo (New York), 188 Bestiality, 31 Burkley, Carl, 224, 231, 232 Bethurum, Truman, 396 Burroughs, William, 65 Beuys, Joseph, 65 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 27 Beyond Baroque (performance center, Los Angeles), 204 Cage, John, 114 Bible, 372 Calder, Alexander, 14, 152 Big Brother, 283 California, 296, 298 Bigfoot (giant primate), 159, 161 California Institute of the Arts, xvi, 16, 44, 65, 96, 104, Bilkenroth, Beate, 102–104 188, 384, 393 Biomorphism, 120, 121, 122, 150, 160 California Newspaper Publishers Association, 298–299 Black Sabbath Calligraphy, 64 “Iron Man,” 44 Camp, 147 Blake, William, 25 Campbell, Joseph, 130 Blau, Douglas, 2 Cameron, Dan, 32, 34 Blomeier, Oliver, 104 Capshaw, Kate, 302, 303, 305, 307 Bloom, Barbara, 32 Caricature, 86, 165–167 Bloy, Léon, 26 Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), 50 Body art, 220 Carnegie International (1999), 50, 54 Bolivia, 395 Caro, Anthony, 152 Bolk, Louis, 375 Carpenter, John, 403 Bonn, Kunstmuseum, 234 Cartoons Bono, Mary, 299 Goon Island, 216 Bono, Sonny, 299 Hanna-Barbera, 217, 283 Border Politics, 124 Huckleberry Hound, 106 Borràs, Maria Luïsa Pocahontas, 86 Picabia (1985), 342 Popeye, 216 Bourgeois, Louise, 52 Yogi Bear, 106 Bouwhuis, Jelle, 164 Caste (system), 5 Bower, Doug, 390 Categorization, 140–142 Brancusi, Constantin, 131 Catharsis, 17 Braun, Christian, 164 Catholicism, 5, 12, 41, 44, 46, 108, 276–282, 318 Braunschweig, Kunstverein, 102, 244 communion, 281 416 Brazil, 144, 395 mass, 280 Brecht, Bertolt, 42 Cay, Ben, 253 Breton, André, 17, 25 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 215–216 British Acoustical Society, 377 Cephalopods, 262 Broadway Kino, 173 Chandès, Hervé, 144 Brown, Helen Gurley, 76 Character, xvii, xxiv, 2, 4, 28, 174, 184–185 Brown, James, 42 Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall (Copenhagen), 340 Bruggen, Coosje van, 312 Cher, 285 Brussels (Belgium) Childhood, 14–16, 30–31, 58, 61, 77, 105, 127, 129, Hôtel Empain, 138 131–133, 141, 148, 231, 255–271, 274, 284, 287– Bryce Canyon National Park, 389 290, 328, 395, 405, 407 China, 121, 126 Congo, 144 kitsch, 124 Congress (U.S.), 299 landscape, 152 Conrad, Tony, xx, 112, 173, 180–181, 226 Seven Star Crags (region), 123 “cooked” films, 180 Chinatown (Los Angeles), 120, 121, 122, 123, 150 The Flicker, 180 Chinese Americans, 120, 124 Hail the Fallen (video), 180 Chorley, Dave, 390 Constitution (U.S.), 298 Christ, 282, 402 Cook, James, 370 Christianity, 6, 126, 216, 260, 276–282 Cooke, Lynne, 50 Clarke, Arthur C. Cooper, James, 370 Childhood’s End, 342 Corita, Sister Mary, 12 Reach for Tomorrow, 342 Counterculture, 158 Class, xxiv, 5, 16, 36, 147 Courbet, Gustave, 24, 148, 231, 255–271, 274, 284, Claustrophobia, 285 287–290 Clift, Montgomery, 190 Craft, 14, 15, 41, 45, 50, 52–58, 138, 146, 158, Clinton, William Jefferson, 293 244 Clooney, George, 298 sock monkey dolls, 395 Coca-Cola, 287 Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles), 146 Cocteau, Jean, 24 Creative Time Colgate-Palmolive (company), xvii “Art in the Anchorage,” 97 Colin, Kim, xxiii, 324–336 Criminality, 5, 6, 12–14, 17, 18, 22, 30, 61, 87, 296– Collage, 41, 140, 141 309, 394 Collins, John, 370 Critical theory, 392–393 Color, xxiii, xxiv, 15, 22, 35, 41, 60, 96, 98, 100, 104– Crop circles, 390 105, 107–108, 120, 121–122, 125, 159, 212, 244, Crumb, Robert, 66, 164, 165, 166, 169, 170 265–266, 348–380, 391 Crystals, xxiv, 102, 104–105 color field (painting), 64 Cuba, 340 dirty, 122 Cub Scouts, 86 naming, 96–97 sample sets, 96–97 Dada, xxviii school, 34 neodada, 176 theory, 64 Dalí, Salvador, xxiv INDEX Comics, 50 Dalley, Tesa, 258 books, 4, 65, 106 Dance, 113–114, 120, 129–132, 212, 224, 230, 417 “Comic Con[vention],” 234 328 Fortress of Solitude, 322 Debord, Guy, 94 Krypton, 322 Degas, Edgar, 23 Sad Sack, 123, 248 De Kooning, Willem, 165, 169 Spider-Man, 260–261 Deleuze, Gilles, 407 Superman, 234–236 Democracy, 32 Underground, 166 De Stijl, 60 Zap, 166 Details (magazine), 214 Commodification, 52 Detroit (Michigan), 42, 125, 159–161 Conceptual art, xvi, 66, 96, 171, 387–388, 391 Belle Isle Aquarium, 121 Condoms, 283 Detroit River and islands, 125, 159–161 Detroit Institute of Arts Faces Artists Take on Detroit, 156–161 proto, 268 Dewey, Professor, 369 ugly, 268 Diana, Princess of Wales, 298 Fahlström, Öyvind, 64, 65 Dinosaurs, 265–266, 292, 305 Families, 14, 16, 31, 61, 129, 146, 194, 260–261, 286, Tyrannosaurus rex, 304 299, 300, 318 Disk jockeys, 244 American, 406 Disney, Walt, 18 Daddy’s boy, 265 Disneyland, 106, 321 father-son incest, 276, 288–289 Di Suvero, Mark, 66, 152 romance, 322, 327 Dolls, 53 totalitarian, 270 Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich, 23 Feminism, 129 Douglas, Mary, xxiv, 408 Fetishism, xxiv, 84, 115, 138, 240, 295, 330 Drawing, 50, 64, 107, 166, 196, 390 high-tech, 401 Dreamworks, SKG, 306 Film Drugs, 158, 296–309 actors, 293, 296, 299 culture, 405 The Angry Red Planet, 404 methamphetamines (speed), 303 Atomic Submarine, 402 Drumming, 5, 42 Barbarella, 404 Dryden, John, 369 Basic Instinct, 299 Dubuffet, Jean Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 404 art brut, 146 Communion, 404 The Day the Earth Stood Still, 402 Earth art, 166 Deep Throat, 408 Eastern Michigan University, 44 E.T., 305 Ecology, 32 Fantastic Voyage, 405 Ectoplasm, 255, 349, 371, 393, 409, 410 Fire in the Sky, 404 Edwards, Frank, 384–386 First Man into Space, 161 Effigies, 33–36 Hollywood, 342, 402, 403, 405 Egypt horror, 208 pyramids, 270 Independence Day, 406 Ehrenzweig, Anton, 258 industry, 303 Electronic Arts Intermix, 173 Jurassic Park, 305, 306 Elmer (postcard artist), 106 movie posters, 292 418 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 26 Porky’s, 248 Empathy, 53 pornographic, 408–411 Emschwiller, Ed, 64 Schindler’s List, 306 Enemas, 281 Super-8, 180 England, 390 The Thing, 403 English, Charles, 300 Flanagan, Bob, xx, 173 Ernst, Max, 118, 127 One Hundred Reasons (with Sheree Rose and Mike Erró (artist), 169 Kelley), 204–205 Evans, Walker, 388 Fleet Street (London), 298 Evolution, 375 Fleischer Studios, 216 Expressionism, German, 270 Max Fleischer, 216 neoexpressionism, 167, 187 Fogle, Douglas, 74 Folk art, xxiv, 66, 144–148, 391, 395 Graham, Martha, 118, 126, 129–136, 231 Fondation Cartier (Paris) Care of the Heart, 131 Un art populaire, 144 Dark Meadow, 130, 131 Football, 35, 42, 289 Embattled Garden, 131 Formalism, xxiv, 64, 107, 141–142, 148, 158, 167, 240, Errand into the Maze, 130, 131 342, 405 Heriodiade, 131 Formless, 121–124, 152 Judith, 131 Fort, Charles, 384–386 Night Journey, 120, 131 Foucault, Michel, 26 Grässlin, Karola, 102 France, 146, 370 Graves, Michael, 336 Francis, Mark, 50–52, 56 Graw, Isabelle, xviii, xix, 260, 316 Freaks, 41 Greece, 17, 374 Freud, Sigmund, 85, 190, 375, 406 Greek pantheon, 374 Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, 84 Greenberg, Clement, 166, 248, 342, 405 Fruit flies, 16 Greenfield Village (Michigan), 328 Greenstein, M.