John Currin: The Dogwood Thieves (A.S.A.P.)

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John Currin: The Dogwood Thieves (A.S.A.P.)
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In 2004, John Currin (born 1962) began a large-scale painting that would eventually be titled â€œThe Dogwood Thieves.â€ What ensued was six years of humorous missteps, uncomfortable second-guesses and painterly faux pas, all visually presented here in 39 previously unreproduced and no longer extant iterations of a single painting. John Currin: The Dogwood Thieves is an entertaining portrait of the sometimes agonizing artistic process, and follows the artistâ€™s initial inspiration from the photograph of a magazine advertisement to what would become dozens of paintings atop paintings. Currin shows how he went about changing night skies into ocean horizons, how a Russian bra evolved upon a pair of bare breasts and why his wifeâ€™s face underwent a lengthy transformation and traded features with a 1980s newscaster and then a 1970s Danish porn star. It also displays the delicate balancing act Currin maintains more generally in his work as he maneuvers between a broad range of cultural references, from womenâ€™s magazine photography and photorealist kitsch to Renaissance oil painting drapery and personal narrative. Combining visual documentation with a lecture Currin gave at the Acadia Summer Arts Program in 2010, this book is, as the artist puts it, â€œpartly just to show kind of what I go through to make a painting,â€ but â€œalso to dispel any notion that itâ€™s a good thing to work on a painting for six years.â€
Country USA
Brand A.S.A.P.
Manufacturer A.S.A.P.
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2012-06-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780979764257

Country	USA
Brand	A.S.A.P.
Manufacturer	A.S.A.P.
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2012-06-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780979764257

John Currin: The Dogwood Thieves (A.S.A.P.)

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