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 PrefacePart 2 AcknowledgementsPart 3 IntroductionChapter 4 1. The Mouse: Debut, Copyright and ReferenceChapter 5 2. Artist and the Mouse: Humor, Attachment and the GambitChapter 6 3. It all Started With a MouseChapter 7 4. Nostalgia MouseChapter 8 5. Next Stop Main Street DisneylandChapter 9 6. Love and HateChapter 10 7. Portraits and the MickeyfieldChapter 11 8. It's a Grim(m) World After AllChapter 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.