Jane Kelly

Kelly, Jane





Jane Kelly was born 1956 BirthLondon, England.

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"I’ve always been fascinated by Myra Hindley’s disastrous life and because hers was the first horrible crime I knew about as a child. I wanted to see what she might have looked like in the kind of family situation she was always denied."
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I am fascinated by the history of the 20th Century, particularly what is now called The Holocaust. I have been interested in this narrative since I first discovered it, aged 11, reading a book called This Is Your Century. At the time I could not find anyone else who was interested in the subject or who seemed to know anything about it.Like football there was no big issue about it and it was not discussed by "respectable" people. Much later I was able to live in Poland for a year and explored the subject further…

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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new...

South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success...


James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art.
“Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon







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