Attached to the Mouse

Holly Crawford is an artist, art historian, and the Director of AC Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex, United Kingdom, an M.A. Economics and M.S.P.H. in Behavioral Science from UCLA and she is a nonclinical Fellow at NYU Medical School Psychoanalytic Center.

• Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgements Part 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1. The Mouse: Debut, Copyright and Reference Chapter 5 2. Artist and the Mouse: Humor, Attachment and the Gambit Chapter 6 3. It all Started With a Mouse Chapter 7 4. Nostalgia Mouse Chapter 8 5. Next Stop Main Street Disneyland Chapter 9 6. Love and Hate Chapter 10 7. Portraits and the Mickeyfield Chapter 11 8. It's a Grim(m) World After All Chapter 12 9. Conclusions

For at least a half-century Mickey Mouse, ears and all, has served as one of the most potent icons in contemporary visual culture.…But however much that (deceptively) ingenuous face and unique silhouette turn up in Pop paintings, social-commentary cartoons, and even abstract sculpture, writers and historians have let Mickey's ubiquity pass without substantial comment. Until now. Defying the perils of post-modernist close reading, pop-culture fetishism, and the fabled wrath of Disney Corp., Holly Crawford proffers an exhaustive documentation, classification, and analysis of Mickey's many appearances in the visual art of our time. Her study fills a gap in the critical history of recent art, not to mention in Mouseology.