Exquisite mayhem - the spectacular and erotic world of wrestling-trilingue - fo. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Exquisite mayhem - the spectacular and erotic world of wrestling-trilingue - fo

Professional wrestling is currently one of the most popular forms of entertainment in America. - In the early Seventies, Ehret began to stage and photograph female wrestling scenarios in his studio. This erotic photographic genre has come to be known as 'apartment wrestling'. - Shot on sets with controlled lighting, his photographs have a sense of uncanny drama absent from previous examples of the 'cat fighting' fetish style. - This book is the first to present, to a mass audience, the golden age of pro wrestling and its illegitimate sibling: apartment wrestling. - By bringing together, for the first time, these two separate bodies of Theo Ehret's work, 'Exquisite Mayhem' presents the roots of today's overtly eroticized theatrical world of pro wrestling.

Mike Kelley, 1954 in Detroit geboren, zählt der Amerikaner heute international zu den wichtigsten Vertretern seiner Generation. Intensiv befasste er sich mit Literatur, Philosophie, Hippiekultur und Feminismus. Seine Installationsarbeiten verbinden den politischen mit dem ästhetischen Diskurs, konzeptuelle Strategien, Psychoanalyse und anarchischen Humor, Pop-Folklore und christlich-katholische Ikonografie zu einem kontroversen Gemisch, das mit Kalkül traditionelle Wertvorstellungen aushebelt.