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Paul McCarthy
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American performance and installation artist (born 1945)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 38
Top works
- Research Methods in Applied Sport Psychology
- Paul McCarthy
- Brain box dream box
- Coffee Code
- Paul McCarthy
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Film & TV
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
While still a student, Paul McCarthy threw himself out of a second floor window in a performance/action, emulating Yves Klein's legendary "Leap into the Void." McCarthy was an influential figure in the Southern California art and performance scene for decades before achieving international recognition. His performance work in the late 1970s explored areas of Dionysian and shamanistic initiation…
Known for
- Becoming Paul McCarthy — Self2020
- Coach Stage Stage Coach2019
- The Art Foundry2014
- Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body2001
- Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone1992
- Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding) — Father1987
- Cultural Soup1987
- Class Fool — Self1976
- Black and White Tapes1975
- Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)1975
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1945
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 262
- Total plays
- 1,258
Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Paul+McCarthy">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Family name
- McCarthy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Salt Lake City
- Occupation
- lecturer
- Position held
- professor emeritus
- Educated at
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Santa Claus
- Field of work
- painting
- Genre
- conceptual art
- Image
- Paul McCarthy — Westernparade (ii).jpg
- Work location
- San Francisco
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- Commons Creator page
- Paul McCarthy
- Commons category
- Paul McCarthy
- date of birth
- 1945-08-04
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- copyright representative
- Paul McCarthy
- partner in business or sport
- Mike Kelley
- described at URL
- v2.nl/people/paul-mccarthy
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