Good Dreams, Bad Dreams American Mythologies Published by Skira. Edited by Massimiliano Gioni. Contributions by Richard Prince. A work of a multigenerational group of artists who engage in a complex analysis of American popular culture, entertaining a love-and-hate relationship with the founding myths of the American dream. At the core is a group of artists who have chronicled dramatic changes in the cultural and artistic history of America from the 1980s to the present day. Good Dreams, Bad Dreams includes important works by John Baldessari and Allen Ruppersberg, Richard Prince and Raymond Pettibon, Lutz Bacher, Rachel Harrison, Klara Lidén, Joyce Pensato and Amanda Ross-Ho, George Condo, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel.
Massimiliano Gioni is director of the Trussardi Foundation, artistic director of the New Museum in New York, and director of the Venice Biennale in 2013. |