John Currin / essay by James Lawrence.

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English
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  • Paris : Gagosian Gallery, [2016]
  • ©2016
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128 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 33 cm

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    At once highly seductive and deeply perplexing, John Currin's paintings draw inspiration from such disparate areas as Old Master portraits, pinups, pornography, and B-movies. Consistent throughout his oeuvre, however, is his search for the point at which the beautiful and the grotesque hold each other in perfect balance, and this new book from Gagosian Gallery demonstrates just that. In his most recent work, Currin layers each canvas with multiple scenes, creating paintings within paintings. He paints idealized yet challengingly perverse images of women, from lusty nymphs and dour matrons to more ethereal feminine prototypes. While his eroticized subjects often exist at odds with the popular dialogue and politics of contemporary art, they entice viewers, and are reproduced here in stunning detail.
    Notes
    "This catalog covers work from 2011 to 2015; during that time Gagosian Gallery presented two exhibitions, each titled John Currin: the first at 4 rue de Ponthieu, Paris, October 21-December 21, 2013, and the second at 456 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills, February 19-April 11, 2015"--Colophon.
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    Contents
    Allegories of truth / James Lawrence.
    ISBN
    • 0847849864
    • 9780847849864
    LCCN
    2016461035
    OCLC
    939994622
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