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In this period of his psychosexual work, McCarthy is dipping his cock in black painting or he is masturbating with raw meat while wearing women's undergarments. His work often becomes an exercise in abjection and self-humiliation and an exorcism of infantile feelings that sometimes involve grotesque forms of female drag and a fair amount of physical paint. In "Class Fool" of 1976, McCarthy holds a doll between his legs, and hops about on a ketchup-slicked floor his feet regularly and violently slipping out from under him.
By the late 70s McCarthy was moving on a more pop-cultural direction using sitcomlike acts and ketchup trying to expose the Hollywood vocabulary of special effects. With this last development, which led to McCarthy's mature style, one can see that his work, in part, charted the historical evolution of shock away from its cutting edge origins and into the corporate mainstream. For what is national entertainment state governed by, if not sensationalism? McCarthy understood this and for a while was able to maintain the critical distance of the outsider.
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Paul.Mc.Carthy.-.Class.Fool.(1976).avi 
In this period of his psychosexual work, McCarthy is dipping his cock in black painting or he is masturbating with raw meat while wearing women's undergarments. His work often becomes an exercise in abjection and self-humiliation and an exorcism of infantile feelings that sometimes involve grotesque forms of female drag and a fair amount of physical paint. In "Class Fool" of 1976, McCarthy holds a doll between his legs, and hops about on a ketchup-slicked floor his feet regularly and violently slipping out from under him.
By the late 70s McCarthy was moving on a more pop-cultural direction using sitcomlike acts and ketchup trying to expose the Hollywood vocabulary of special effects. With this last development, which led to McCarthy's mature style, one can see that his work, in part, charted the historical evolution of shock away from its cutting edge origins and into the corporate mainstream. For what is national entertainment state governed by, if not sensationalism? McCarthy understood this and for a while was able to maintain the critical distance of the outsider.
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Paul.Mc.Carthy.-.Class.Fool.(1976).avi 
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