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John Currin: The Dogwood Thieves Text by John Currin. In 2004, John Currin (born 1962) began a large-scale painting that would eventually be titled The Dogwood Thieves.” What ensued was six years of humorous missteps, uncomfortable second-guesses and painterly faux
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A.S.A.P.
ISBN: 9780979764257
$40.00 | In stock

John Currin Artwork by John Currin. Evocative, varied, sometimes vulgar and often styled in a deliberately retrograde manner, John Currin's depictions of women nearly always induce a sense of the familiar, of having been seen before--framed on
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TAKA ISHII GALLERY
ISBN: 9781564660985
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John Currin Artwork by John Currin. Contributions by Keith Seward. Text by Frederic Paul.
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F.R.A.C. LIMOUSIN
ISBN: 9782908257182
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John Currin

John Currin: The Dogwood Thieves

Text by John Currin.
Published by A.S.A.P.

In 2004, John Currin (born 1962) began a large-scale painting that would eventually be titled “The Dogwood Thieves.” 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 artist’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 wife’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 women’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, “partly just to show kind of what I go through to make a painting,” but “also to dispel any notion that it’s a good thing to work on a painting for six years.”

JOHN CURRIN: THE DOGWOOD THIEVES
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