Verlag: Deitch Projects, 2007
ISBN 10: 097532439X ISBN 13: 9780975324394
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (tall thin). Slight rubbing to covers (cloth; chiefly to extremities); slight adhesion to front endpapers at top edges); else a nearly new copy internally. 43, [2] pages. Half-title: Surrender! Catalogue issued in conjunction with the exhibition/installation at Deitch Projects, New York, November - December 2006. Texts by Benjamin Weissman and Trinie Dalton; book design by Gail Swanlund.White, Joshua (photographer); Paffrath, Ludger (photographer); Over 30 color Photographs (including endpapers).
Verlag: Deitch Projects March 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 097532439X ISBN 13: 9780975324394
Anbieter: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Used - Very Good. The Los Angeles-based artist Matt Greene is becoming known for his ethereal landscapes of fleshy fungi and bushy bombshells, paintings that explore his favorite shelves in the library: vintage pornography, fairy tales, horticulture, horror films, nineteenth-century Symbolist art, and, of course, the history of Modernism. Greene's canvases unite those disparate and sometimes deliberately kitschy interests--and the weighty themes of gender, sexuality and epistemology that accompany them--in his distinctly serious and polished practice, creating a compelling tension between the two aesthetics. In this case, that tension is a bit higher than usual, as the artist shifts his attention from vintage to contemporary pornography. This new suite of paintings, the heart of his recent first solo show at Deitch Projects, is inspired by video erotica and uses its screen images to address highbrow concerns such as surface, color and space. Text by Benjamin Weissman, Trinie Dalton.