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    The Art of Isabel Samaras

    By Isabel Samaras,Essay and orchestration by Colin Berry,Text by Justin Giarla,, Lucy Blue,, Shag,,and The Pizz

    9-5/8 x 10 in; 160 pp;
    full-color images throughout
    Hardcover
    April 2009
    ISBN 9780811866040
    ISBN10 0811866041

    SKU# 9780811866040

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    $35.00
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    Isabel Samaras's quirky, sexy, pop-surrealist art has had a cult following for yearsand now at long last her first monograph, On Tender Hooks, is here. Drawing her influence from classic TV shows and paintings by the Old Mastersfor example riff...

    On Tender Hooks



    On Tender Hooks

    Isabel Samaras's quirky, sexy, pop-surrealist art has had a cult following for yearsand now at long last her first monograph, On Tender Hooks, is here. Drawing her influence from classic TV shows and paintings by the Old Mastersfor example riffing on Gricault's Raft of the Medusa by replacing the figures with characters from Gilligan's IslandSamaras has created a witty, erotic, and surreal body of work. This fresh and dazzling volume includes a three-way interview between Samaras and fellow low-brow artists Shag and The Pizz, as well as delightful and enlightening commentary from gallerist Justin Giarla and art writer Colin Berry, and an erotic short story by Lucy Blue.

     

    Artist Isabel Samaras's work has been featured in numerous books, magazines, television shows, and a documentary film. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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    On Tender Hooks

    From painting homoerotic fantasies on vintage lunch boxes (The Lone Ranger and Tonto in flagrante) to bawdy television trays (starring Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock), Samaras went on to paint in oil on wood, using the techniques of the old masters to enliven the stuff of fairy tales.

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    Where do I know these people from?

    10/11/11| Dana Davis
    You'll laugh, you'll cry and then you will start laughing some more and then you will ask yourself why you know so much about the subjects of Ms Samaras's paintings and then you will laugh some more at the level of humanity she has revealed in all of your old friends. If myth is a culture's self image and our stories tell us who we are then this book will give insight to what our collective unconscious is like when it thinks that nobody is watching. And then you will smile knowingly.