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Jason Rhoades: Black Pussy Cocktail Coffee Table Book

Once described by critic Jerry Saltz as “orgies of narrative–Nevada’s celebrated Chicken Ranch brothel crossed with Wal-Mart and Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau,” the libidinously sprawling installations of Jason Rhoades (1965-2006) met cultural overproduction head-on, with a savage fervor comparable only to that of Rhoades’ onetime teacher at UCLA, Paul McCarthy. His work encompassed excess [...]

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