Author: Miller, NicoleThe first monograph on Los Angeles–based artist and filmmaker Nicole Miller, this volume comprises a chorus of cultural criticism by contemporary thinkers in response to the titular work, a bronze cast of Michael Jackson’s kneeling figure. Poured from a mould made directly from his body around 1986, this talismanic object comprises myriad aspects of celebrity and image: the objecthood of the performer, the potency and perversity of objects, death, grief and editing.The artist’s first foray into sculpture, Michael in Black serves as a point of departure for exploring concerns throughout Miller’s practice in moving image: her recurring interest in the self-performance of her film subjects; the dehumanising effects of the mass gaze; the celebrity as a host object for contemporary projections; the tactility of film and the sculptural qualities of editing; and the potential for self-storytelling to reconstitute an individual’s wholeness.ISBN 9781954939004. CARA/Public Fiction. pb. 256 pages. 46 colour, 17 b/w ills. 24 x 17 cm.available
