TY - BOOK AU - Rosenblum,Robert AU - McDermott,David AU - McGough,Peter ED - Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Ostend, Belgium) TI - Messers MacDermott & MacGough: paintings, photographs & time experiments, 1950 SN - 9074377645 U1 - 759.13 PY - 1997///] CY - Bruges, Belgium PB - Stichting Kunstboek KW - McDermott, David, KW - McGough, Peter, KW - Exhibition catalogues KW - exhibition catalogs KW - aat KW - Exhibition catalogs KW - fast KW - lcgft KW - Catalogues d'exposition KW - rvmgf N1 - "This book was published by Stichting Kunstboek in Bruges on the occasion of the exhibition MacDermott & MacGough in the P.M.M.K., Museum of Modern Art, in Ostend from 22 November 1997 to 4 January 1998"--Colophon; Incluye bibliografía (page 203); Also issued online N2 - This book represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of the art of MacDermott & MacGough ever published. Featuring 130 paintings and 25 photographs, the book's retrospective scope is an essential document on the strange, almost hermetic world of this fabled duo. Thematically grouped sections, including Silhouette Paintings, "Conspiracy" Paintings and Photographic Art, allow the reader to discover the many variations of MacDermott and MacGough's aesthetic -- an aesthetic which is, as Robert Rosenblum notes in his thoughtful introduction, a self-consciously ironic appropriation of the past. The book also includes a characteristically enigmatic and purposely antiquated statement by the artists themselves ER -