How can one understand what the artist's eye sees? In this volume, the first in an occasional series of monographs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, confronts the specific vision of a contemporary artist, publishing reproductions of artwork chosen by that artist alongside his own pieces. The celebrated young figurative painter John Currin has here selected some 30 works of portraiture, ancient to modern, from the MFA's permanent collection, evaluating them as one might a friend, enemy, or lover--subjectively, passionately, at times irrationally, but always with a visceral sense of connection and personal insight. Currin pairs these portraits, which in their juxtaposition become a composite self-portrait, with commentary on the works and the ways in which they relate to his own painting.
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John Currin was born in 1962 in Boulder, Colorado. After completing his MFA at the Yale School of Art, he moved to New York with his wife and muse, artist Rachel Feinstein, where they currently live and work. His highly lauded figurative paintings and drawings have been widely shown in institutional group shows and solo gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe.
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I have the book in my library but to tell you the truth I was not that impressed with it. Very small physically and not much to it. Cheerio
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