Paul McCarthy: Head Space Drawings 1963-2019

ARAM MOSHAYEDI AND CONNIE BUTLER, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY CATHERINE DAMMAN, BRUCE HAINLEY, AND PAUL McCARTHY This book looks at Paul McCarthy’s drawings, a rarely examined aspect of his oeuvre, and offers a greater understanding of this provocative artist.One of the world’s most prolific social critics, Paul McCarthy is best known for his work in performance, installation, film, and sculpture. He is internationally known as one of the key figures of performance history in Los Angeles. His works reference American cultural archetypes such as Disneyland, B movies, soap operas, comic books and contemporary politics. His magnificent drawings and epic films skewer, often profanely, mass media and consumer-driven American society by pointing to its hypocrisy, double standards, and repression. McCarthy is also deeply influenced by European avant-garde art, especially by figures such as Joseph Beuys and Samuel Beckett, and Viennese Actionism. McCarthy’s drawings share the same visual language as