Mike Bouchet: Flood

Artist: Mike Bouchet Title: Mike Bouchet: Flood Essay: Mad Man by Jen Allen  Year: 2013 ISBN: 978-0-89797-458-5 Publisher: Marlborough Gallery, Inc. Book Format: Softcover, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, unpaginated, 26 color plates This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Mike Bouchet: Flood. The driving forces behind this show exhibition manifold, but coalesce into an incisive critique of popular culture that nevertheless celebrates the strange effectiveness of its machinations. An important blueprint for the exhibition is Bouchet’s observation that Surrealism was rendered obsolete by the explosion of advertising in the middle of the last century—effectively outshining the artists with a more sophisticated and depraved dream-machine.