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John Currin |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: great figures!!
Comments: I already liked John Currin's work...however this book gave a lot more insight into it. In addition the images were Great. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: An excellent monograph on an excellent painter.
Comments: I had the pleasure of picking up this volume at the opening of Mr. Currin's American retrospective in Chicago a few years back, and subsequently meeting Mr. Currin. He's a quiet and gentle man however you can honestly sense his vast knowledge of painting and the psyche lying just underneath his guy next door-ness. Painting and the psyche is exactly what his work is about. He paints mainly women, in the lushest and almost all traditional manner you can think of. He paints them in his own twisted version of neo-mannerism using traditional oil painting techniques. Indeed, he's probably the only painter on the contemporary art scene who's capable of painting in the manner that he paints, which recalls Raphael, Cranach, and Chardin to name a few. He has a sense of style and color that challenges the greatest masters, however he never runs too far with his talent, he has always maintained an effortless and subtle outrageousness. Imagine if Russ Meyer had let Martha Stewart helm his pictures and you have a John Currin painting. This book is a sublime example of what an artists monograph should be. A terrific and long interview with the artist, a landmark and rare essay by Rosenblum on his favourite topic of figurative painting, and the best colored plates you can imagine, fully recreating the color and freshness of Currin's paintings. I hate to touch this book because it's value will undoubtedly increase as the monograph becomes rarer, however I find this impossible because it's just so terrific and filled with Currin's imagery and information. This is the definitive John Currin book, and a MUST for any fan of his work. |
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: A Little Disappointed
Comments: Was disappointed to find that my favorite picture - Stanford After-Brunch 2000, was split between2pages so that you were unable to get a look at it and really apprecaite it. May want to let other purchaseers know that the cover that is shown is not the cover that is actually on the book - Wish a viewer could peak inside and actually see if it is what they are looking for. Other than that it is what1would expect to find in any other art book. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: No wonder
Comments: I hear modern art was beaten into him |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: The Tops!!
Comments: The fruit never falls far from the tree. |
