John Currin Color Art “became a ready-made way of

“became a ready-made way of doing everything I wanted to do

Each work represents a major series for De Maria during the last fifty years

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Connecting the dots among the Surrealist milieu

each of the sixteen large-scale panoramic photographs presents a exterior scene from a postindustrial urban landscape

John Currin Color Art “became a ready-made way ofThis comprehensive monograph illustrates John Currins work between 1988 and 2006, with approximately four hundred paintings and drawings, many of them previously unpublished, arranged into chronological groupings accompanied by reproductions of notebook sketches and source materials. Using classical techniques to portray highly charged and often taboo subjects, Currin takes inspiration from old master portraits, pornography, and B movies to produce