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Title: Lisa Yuskavage by Lisa Yuskavage, Katy Siegel ISBN: 0-88454-097-9 Publisher: Univ Pennsylvania Inst of Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: recent pictures
Comment: In some of her recent pictures, Yuskavage has moved away from innocence and pastels. Interior: Big Blonde with Beaded Jacket (1997) is darker, in every sense, than her sisters. There is a calculation in her erotic self-presentation that is not mindless, and is, therefore, more sinister. The self-consciousness of Honeymoon (1998) is of a different sort. The artist has created a setting of mysterious mountains, moonlight, transparent drapery, and voluptuous nymph all rendered with the airbrushed perfection of a soft-porn magazine. As the artist steps back to get her accustomed distance, she exposes the clichés of the "romantic" image, removing the scene from the actual with anatomical exaggerations and distortions. True Blonde (1999) poses erotically, but covers her crotch with her hands. Is she concealing her pudenda, or playing with herself? Her lowered eyes show us a sadder, more introspective, side to the woman who accepts her role as sex symbol, but yearns for something more real. True Blonde Draped (1999) gives us a still more poignant and more unguarded view of her. She looks out at us with a self-awareness we have not seen before. Her face, particularly her eyes, are shadowed, giving her more age, more consciousness. Significantly, her lower body is draped, and this time, unmistakably, her hands are clasped protectively over her crotch. She is a woman endowed with the attributes of sexual allure blond hair and huge breasts-but they seem to be, for her, more a heavy burden than a useful weapon. She is a poignant portrait of a woman who longs to be taken as a person and not as a sexual object, but the postcoital air suggests that she is trapped in a role she does not know how to escape.
Lisa Yuskavage wants seriously to paint. She believes in the transforming beauty of pignient suspended in oil on canvas, and the ability of that beauty to suggest transcendence. She paints the shallow, the vulgar, the heedless as if it were profound, elegant, meditative, thereby reminding us obliquely of the absence of these qualities and the enduring possibility of their renascence.
From the essays by Claudia Gould "Screwing it on straight"
Rating: 2
Summary: there is better stuff out there
Comment: if you like lisa, then try john currin
Rating: 5
Summary: Hot new talent
Comment: Being twenty and in art school I am in a constant battle to find my direction. I came across Lisa Yuskavage in a painting magazine six months ago. I was interested to see more of her work and find out what makes her paint. I immediatly set out to find some information about her and this was the perfect source. This thirty something painter is a women after my own heart she is inspired by the women of the new millenium. The book is a great catalog of her work very extensive. I strongly recomend this book to anyone looking for figurative inspired art.
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Title: John Currin by Robert Rosenblum ISBN: 0810991888 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation by Barbara J. Bloemink, Ana Merino, Rick Ribenas, Vicky A. Clark, George D. Wallace ISBN: 1891024604 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Writing on the Wall : Word and Image in Modern Art by Simon Morley ISBN: 0520241088 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: John Currin by John Currin ISBN: 1564660982 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Lisa Yuskavage: Tit Heaven by Lisa Yuskavage ISBN: 1891024825 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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