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Dewey Decimal Number: 709 EAN: 9780884540977 ISBN: 0884540979 Label: ICA Philadelphia Manufacturer: ICA Philadelphia Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 80 Publication Date: December 15, 2000 Publisher: ICA Philadelphia Release Date: December 02, 2000 Studio: ICA Philadelphia Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: One of the most exciting young American painters today, Lisa Yuskavage creates work that it is both unsettling and seductive. Populated by anatomically incorrect nymphets and other female anomalies, her work brings to mind a grotesque take on Keane kids or Vargas paintings, filtered through a skewed sense of self-portraiture. Her paintings invite comparisons both to John Currin and Rembrandt, presenting often disturbing subject matter in the frame of an enticing and physically stunning formal composition. Her figures lurk in shadowy yet colorful atmospheres ignited by expressionistic highlights, deftly moving between representation and abstraction. This monograph-accompanying her first major solo exhibition and focusing on work from 1995 to the present-is sure to add to the accolades she is currently receiving apropos of her work in the latest Whitney Biennial. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - recent picturesIn 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 ... Read More Rating:  - there is better stuff out thereif you like lisa, then try john currin Rating:  - Hot new talentBeing 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 ... Read More 
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