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Artworks
Deborah Kass
Enough Already, 20093-color silkscreen on 4-ply museum board16 x 22 1/2 in
40.6 x 57.1 cm
Edition of 40, HC #4 of 47444Further images
Enough Already (2009), belongs to a series of works titled feel good paintings for feel bad times, which Deborah Kass created in the decade following the contentious Presidential election of...Enough Already (2009), belongs to a series of works titled feel good paintings for feel bad times, which Deborah Kass created in the decade following the contentious Presidential election of 2000, as well as the ensuing terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001 and resultant War on Terror. These works deploy nostalgia as a potent aesthetic device. They draw liberally from various Post War, 20th Century, male-dominated aesthetic positions, especially those of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha. Using Mid-Century, vibrant, optimistic formalism as a structure on which to embed hopeful lyrics from Broadway, Pop Music, film scores, Yiddish traditions, and the Great American Song Book, Kass created electric visual mash-ups that inspire reflection on the differences between the contemporary zeitgeist and that of the period following World War II.
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Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner (2009), Enough Already (2009), and Being Alive (2012) belong to a series of works titled feel good paintings for feel bad times, which Deborah Kass created in the decade following the contentious Presidential election of 2000, as well as the ensuing terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001 and resultant War on Terror. These works deploy nostalgia as a potent aesthetic device. They draw liberally from various Post War, 20th Century, male-dominated aesthetic positions, especially those of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha. Using Mid-Century, vibrant, optimistic formalism as a structure on which to embed hopeful lyrics from Broadway, Pop Music, film scores, Yiddish traditions, and the Great American Song Book, Kass created electric visual mash-ups that inspire reflection on the differences between the contemporary zeitgeist and that of the period following World War II.
