Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable Madeleine Grynsztejn Essays by Yves-Alain Bois and

Essays by Yves-Alain Bois and Emanuele Arciuli discuss this body of work in terms of scale

gallerists

which were made between 1972 and the early 1980s

and historians Michael Friend and David Platzker

including all the works in exhibition as well as numerous archival photographs

Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable Madeleine Grynsztejn Essays by Yves-Alain Bois andThis book was published on the occasion of Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. It featured new paintings and sculpture in which imagery of Hollywood stars and Cold Warera politicians collides with mythology, symbols of psychedelic transformation, and the threat of atomic bombs. The exhibitions title suggests the impossibility of comprehending ones own consciousness while