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Book SynopsisKieran Cashell lectures in Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland. He is author of
Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art (2009).
Trade Review[T]he first comprehensive monograph on the artist, complete with interviews ... Cashell stresses the iconographic and thematic correspondences that recur throughout Billingham’s work, whose camerawork constantly questions the conditions of a photographic realism that is neither sentimental nor sensationalist. * Critique d'Art *
Kieran Cashell is a gifted writer and academic. He expertly draws from a wide palette of writers and theorists including Beckett and Freud to present us with a brilliant and original analysis of the complex and intriguing work of Richard Billingham. * Eoin Devereux, University of Limerick, Ireland and University of Jyvasklya, Finland *
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Still Pursuing the Real 1. A Sociologist’s Paradise: Early Studies 1990-1994 2. Prole Art Threat:
Ray’s a Laugh (1996) 3. They Fuck You Up:
Sensation /
Fishtank (1997-1998) 4. Outside:
Black Country (1997-2003) /
Landscapes (2001-2003) 5. Enclosure:
Zoo (2004-2006) 6. Home: Recent Cinematic Work (2015-2018) Conclusion: Locating Billingham in the Context of British Neorealism Notes Index
