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Lisa Yuskavage: Small Paintings, 1993-2004by Tamara Jenkins
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:- This will be the first monograph devoted to Yuskavage's work. - Jenkins's essay will be an up-close and, the artist says, painfully embarrassing look at the forces behind her work. - The book will also include illustrated diagrams, created by Jenkins, which will draw parallels between the author's work and her childhood using paintings, source materials, and family photos. This section is tentatively titled "A Psychotic Attempt to Understand This Work." - This work is Sexy. When Yuskavage's small exhibition catalogue is called up on Amazon, the list of books "Customers who bought this book also bought" includes: The Best of the Pirelli Calendars, Graphis Nudes, Naked in Apartment 7, The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica, Asian Ladies, and Naked Rooms. She also receives a lot of fan mail from prisoners. - Part sexist, feminist, psycho-autobiographical, and satirical, Yuskavage's work continues to generate buzz and controversy. Review:"It's rare for an artist barely over 40 to get his or her own catalogue of 'small' paintings, let alone the large ones. And that the accompanying essay is by Slums of Beverly Hills writer-director Jenkins (rather than an art historian) testifies to name recognition beyond the art world. What Yuskavage is famous for is her paintings of young white women with exaggeratedly shaped and sized breasts, in various stages and poses of self-examination. As Jenkins writes, '[i]n this strange psychosexual universe, female figures stand alone, baring their breasts in fields of peachy pink, lemon yellow or minty blue.' The paintings have struck a chord in a youth, size- and celebrity-enhancement — obsessed culture comparable only to the success of grim portraitist John Currin. Many of the 140 full-color illustrations are full-size reproductions, allowing a chilling intimacy with the work's exploration of narcissism, self-doubt and blank, inarticulate desire." Publishers Weekly (Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:Both admired and censured for the in-your-face eroticism of her paintings of women, Lisa Yuskavage has emerged from the 1990s as one of the most important figurative artists working today. Called the premier bad-girl artist by "The New York Times</I> and lauded in "The New Yorker</I> as an extravagantly deft painter About the AuthorTamara Jenkins is the writer and director of the film Slums of Beverly Hills as well as several award-winning short films. Her writing has been published in Zoetrope: ll-Story, Tin House Magazine, and the New York Press. She lives in New York City. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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