Jim Shaw - Left Behind

Large canvases made from theatre sets from the Left series Behind, initiated in 2004, represents a real fight for the artist Jim Shaw against the propaganda excesses of American society, and more particularly against political, religious and economic ideologies that have underpinned the rise of neoliberalism. To respond to this, the artist develops a rich critical iconography made up of borrowings and singular rereadings of the history of art, media, and images of consumer society. The Left Behind series was the subject of a major exhibition in the nave of the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux in May 2010. Through sumptuous illustrations, unpublished texts by Jim Shaw and a set of rich contributions, this box set, composed of three books, offers a broad overview of this cycle of paintings and will enlighten the reader on one work at a time encyclopedic and visually captivating. A third work illustrating the Many sources of inspiration from the artist accompany this set.