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Title

Lucas Samaras: Objects and Subjects, 1969-1986

Publisher

Abbeville Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0896598039

ISBN 13

9780896598034

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition (stated)

Condition

Near New

Dust Jacket Condition

As New

Book Type

Book

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Presents a view of Samaras' art as developed over the last 20 years including panoramas, photo transformations, boxes, the mirrored corridor, bronzes, chairs, and dot and disc paintings

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Catalogue of a traveling retrospective exhibit, this representative collection of Samaras's paintings, pastels, photographs, collages, assemblages and sculptures illuminates an oeuvre brilliantly integrating a masterful control of explosive color, a cerebral sense of design and passionate, often disturbing, emotive elements. Three introductory essays address issues central to Samaras's arttransformation and autoeroticism. McEvilley, contributing editor of Art Forum, links the "stage set" quality of various pieces to the artist's concern with "theatrical self-presentation," viewing the increasing dimensionality of Samaras's media as a metaphor for the merging of art and life. Taking a psychoanalytic tack, Kuspit, who teaches at State University of New York, analyzes the distorted self-portraitsdismembered, confrontational drawings; grotesque, death mask-like "phototransformations"as vehicles through which their maker exposes and "rejuvenates" illicit aspects of his subconscious. Smith, contributing editor at Art in America, gives a more straightforward, process-oriented critique of the artist's output, identifying in its repetition of a limited set of motifs in an ever-expanding technique, the ultimate coherence in Samaras's work.
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