MCCARTHY, Paul
A&E, Dead End Hole, Picnic

Edited by the artist and published as a signed limited edition of 600, 'PAUL McCARTHY: A&E, ADOLF & EVA, ADAM & EVE, DEAD END HOLE, PICNIC' comprehensively documents a 2021 performance of the same name by Paul McCarthy and the German artist and actress Lilith Stangenberg in a sequence of photos in McCarthy’s characteristic style. The slipcase features a photograph of the pair taken after the performance.

Also featuring texts by McCarthy and Stangenberg, this artist’s book forms part of the broader A&E project, which circles around Adolf [Hitler] and Eva [Braun], Adam and Eve, Arts and Entertainment, reflecting McCarthy’s lifelong exploration of bodily abjection, human entanglement, power, Hollywood, and the underbelly of the twentieth and twenty-first century’s cultural and political climate.

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Published by Hauser & Wirth, 2025
Artists' Books / Monographs