Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable Madeleine Grynsztejn gallerists

gallerists

and historians Michael Friend and David Platzker

including many that have never before been published in color

Essays by Yves-Alain Bois and Emanuele Arciuli discuss this body of work in terms of scale

probably in New York at the time of the installation of The Gates: Central Park

Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable Madeleine Grynsztejn galleristsThis book was published on the occasion of Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. It featured new paintings and sculpture in which imagery of Hollywood stars and Cold Warera politicians collides with mythology, symbols of psychedelic transformation, and the threat of atomic bombs. The exhibitions title suggests the impossibility of comprehending ones own consciousness while