John Currin: New Paintings
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
144
Utgivningsdatum
2011-09-13
Förlag
Rizzoli International Publications
Medarbetare
Cook, Angus (contributions)
Illustratör/Fotograf
60 colour illustrations
Illustrationer
60 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
Dimensioner
317 x 260 x 19 mm
Vikt
1224 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780847836895

John Currin: New Paintings

av Wells Tower
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2011-09-13

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A catalogue of new work by American artist John Currin, one of the worlds foremost figurative painters. John Currins work draws upon a broad range of cultural influences that include Renaissance oil paintings, 1950s womens magazine advertisements, and contemporary politics. Labeled as mannerist, caricaturist, radical conservative, or satirist, Currin continues to confound expectations and evade categorization. While his virtuosic technique is indebted to the history of classical painting, the images engage startlingly contemporary ideas about the representation of the human figure. Currin paints challengingly perverse images of female subjects, from lusty doe-eyed nymphs to more ethereal feminine prototypes. With his uncanny ability to locate the point at which the beautiful and the grotesque are in perfect balance, he produces subversive portraits of idiosyncratic women in conventional settings. This much-anticipated volume comes four years after the definitive John Currin, and it features an interview with the artist by Angus Cook and six short-fiction essays by Wells Tower.

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Wells Towers debut collection of short stories was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times. Tower was the recipient of 2010s tenth annual New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Angus Cook is a writer and artist.

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