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 the wall of a doctor's office, spread-eagled in
father's nudie magazine, glimpsed in a drawing by Rubin, posing as a
prop in some old advertisement, lying supine in a painting at the
Metropolitan. Whether working in watercolor, gouache, charcoal,
pencil, or pen and ink, his sometimes lurid images of women, with
their elongated necks, oversized bosoms, and otherwise slightly
distorted bodies, update the exaggerations of Italian mannerism with
a breezy brushstroke or, alternately, a contemplative smudge of
charcoal. Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 in., 124 pages, 58 color illustrations
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