Focuses on work by the three artists from the 1970s through the 1990s. Examines their participation in subcultural music scenes and discovers a common political

Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon—these Southern California artists formed a “bad boy” trifecta. Early purveyors of abject art, the trio pr

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Offers sixty suggestions for bringing back small, everyday pleasures intone's life to restore it's balance, and describes the five Polynesian keys to happy life