More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid

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More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid is a seminal mixed-media installation by artist Mike Kelley that incorporates used stuffed animals and handmade crafts to explore themes of childhood, sentimentality, and emotional labor.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art installation
mixed-media artwork
artForm assemblage
installation art
associatedWith 1980s American art
Los Angeles art scene
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Mike Kelley NERFINISHED
depicts children’s toys
domestic craft objects
describedAs iconic example of stuffed-animal installations
seminal work in Mike Kelley’s career
explores commodification of affection
psychological charge of everyday objects
tension between care and neglect
genre contemporary art
hasInfluenced contemporary installation art using found toys
discourse on affect and labor in art
hasPart afghans
crocheted items
doilies
knitted items
stuffed animals sewn together
inCollection Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainSubject affective labor
childhood
consumer culture
domesticity
emotional labor
memory
sentimentality
movement conceptual art
postmodern art
notableFor critique of sentimental value
use of discarded toys
title More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid NERFINISHED
usesMaterial found objects
handmade crafts
textiles
used stuffed animals

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