{"product_id":"jim-shaw-thinking-the-unthinkable-isbn-9780847873944","title":"Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThinking the Unthinkable\u003c\/i\u003e documents Jim Shaw’s inaugural exhibition with Gagosian and features an essay by Jessica Beck, new fiction from Jonathan Lethem, and a conversation between the artist and Rachel Kushner.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor over three decades, Jim Shaw has found inspiration in comics, pulp novels, album covers, and amateur paintings. His densely layered and humorous works span painting, drawing, and sculpture, and juxtapose images of friends, family, and dreams, with world events, pop culture, and alternative realities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished to coincide with \u003ci\u003eThinking the Unthinkable\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) in Beverly Hills, Shaw’s first exhibition with Gagosian, this expansive and vibrantly illustrated catalogue delves into the secret histories of psychedelic therapy, Hollywood legend, and nuclear war—themes that all coalesce in the artist’s recent works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn essay by Gagosian director Jessica Beck discusses Shaw’s hallucinogenic depictions of Cary Grant, Esther Williams, and Jeff Chandler. A conversation with author Rachel Kushner ranges from the artist’s formative years to the early weaponization of LSD. In \u003ci\u003eJim Shaw Kills\u003c\/i\u003e, new fiction written by Jonathan Lethem, a miniaturized version of Shaw is dispatched into the comatose body of an ex-president.\u003cb\u003eJim Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1952) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has had exhibitions at museums including CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; and New Museum, New York. His work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, amongst others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Beck\u003c\/b\u003e is a director at Gagosian. Formerly, she was the Milton Fine curator of art at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, where she curated many projects, most notably \u003ci\u003eAndy Warhol: My Perfect Body\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). She won the Prix Médicis Etranger (2018), was a Guggenheim Fellow (2013), and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2016).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Lethem\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fortress of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eChronic City\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eThe Feral Detective\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eThe Arrest\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).","brand":"Gagosian \/ Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300928901349,"sku":"NP9780847873944","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780847873944.jpg?v=1767730418","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/jim-shaw-thinking-the-unthinkable-isbn-9780847873944","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}