| Kurt Kauper: Paintings 2001-2007 Contributor(s): Kauper, Kurt, Koestenbaum, Wayne (Text by (Art, Photo Books)), Karmel, Pepe (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 0977868680 ISBN-13: 9780977868681 Publisher: Deitch Projects OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| Dewey: 759 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 9.7" W x 11.42" (1.00 lbs) 34 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: According to The New York Times, "It would be easy to read Kurt Kauper's nude portraits of the former hockey players Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson as a rote comment on the fragile state of American (or Canadian) masculinity. They work better as an erotic and personal tribute, one that draws on the artist's childhood in a Bruins-worshiping Boston suburb; the neo-Classical figuration of Jacques-Louis David; and the overt sensuality of pre-Stonewall 'athletic' films." This slim, beautifully produced, bright yellow linen-bound exhibition catalogue with tipped-on cover image features some of the most strangely arresting male nudes on canvas today. Ranging from life-sized, full-frontal portraits of a nude Cary Grant at home in his suave, mid-century-movie-star manse (2001-2003) to the artist's most recent portraits of god-like, real-life Canadian hockey stars of the 1960s and 70s, this volume presents work that is perverse, liberated and rightly hilarious alongside essays by Wayne Koestenbaum and Pepe Karmel. |