Mike Taylor

Love Song

Mike Taylor

Love Song

Date

2016

Edition Size

14

Media

Silkscreen

Binding

Hand-sewn

Format

Artist Book

$ 2,800.00

2 in stock


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Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts

St. Olaf College

Stanford University

University of Colorado at Boulder

Walker Art Center

Love Song is a complexly layered silkscreened artist book with a handsewn cover. The text and rich imagery explore and critique the heterosexual, monogamous, and eroticized underpinnings of the concept of love, starkly juxtaposing romantic sentiments with commodification. Mike Taylor layers pop culture love song crooners such as Justin Bieber and the Supremes with historical figures depicting love, such as Degas, 16th-century religious paintings, and ancient Mesopotamia, exploring the constructed concept of love.