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| John Currin | 
 enlarge | Authors: Alison M. Gingeras, Dave Eggers, John Currin
Creators: Gagosian Gallery, Norman Bryson
Publisher: Rizzoli
Category: Book
List Price: $150.00
Buy New: $94.50
You Save: $55.50 (37%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 73123
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.2
Dimensions (in): 13.6 x 10.5 x 1.7
ISBN: 0847828654
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
EAN: 9780847828654
ASIN: 0847828654
Publication Date: December 5, 2006
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Weird & wonderful December 30, 2006
3 out of 14 found this review helpful
John Currin's work occupies a very odd space. I love it all.
Worth $100? Why yes it is, my little ducky. December 6, 2006
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
These art books are getting crazy, price wise. At least someone is making an effort to publish. (Gagosian who also gave us Saville's book) This is Currins raisone to date. Kind of odd considering his age. (What an ego trip that must be!) I like him, so it was a must buy for me. The book is large to begin with, 13 x 10. Color wise the reproductions are excellent. I have seen many of these in real life and as best I remember they have done a good job capturing the image. The general layout of the book is such that the main image being shown is on the right side and the image info is on the left. Many times there is also a drawing or photograph showing Currin's ideas for the painting. It works very well, I thought. Every once in a while there will be a closeup, which there can never be enough for my taste. My beef is that they reproduced some images with far to much margin around the picture. I have to assume based on the sizes of the paintings given that they were trying to keep the ratio of picture to reproducton consistent. What I mean is that I think they were trying to reproduce large paintings larger and smaller paintings smaller. Why, I dont know. Size is ALWAYS a problem for me with art books. The good old days when a publisher would print a horizontal image sideways on the page are long gone. (Heaven forbid we have to turn the book.) Currin doesnt have to many horizontal pictures so its not a big issue. Eggers involvment with the book is in producing a fictional narative of what is occuring in the a few of the images (11 in total). Interesting idea. The two essays are very well written. If you are a Currin fan I think this is a book worth having. Its big and beautiful, even if all of the reproductions arent as large as they could be. If you think you want it, get it now. Im thinking there wasnt a big print run on this one. A big tip of the hat to Gagosian! Thanks snookie!! Keep em comming!!
 Pretty good really, especially interesting if you like pulp. August 16, 2000
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
"Exhibition catalogue of John Currin's exhibition at the ICA, London. John was art director of This Is Hardcore album and the Help The Aged video, for which copies of many of these works were specially made. "The Never Ending Story" was used on the cover of the Help The Aged single."That was how the Pulp People website described this book. I own it and I can say that it is very interesting. All that arty stuff, you know. I could write pages but I don't want to bore you. Anyway, if like me you like art I would recommend it to you, and if you like Pulp and art I would definately recommend it to you. Right, that's yer lot.
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