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This is the first comprehensive monograph on American painter Peter Cain (1959–97), who first achieved recognition in early 1990s New York for his paintings of distorted automobiles. Illustrated with over 80 full-color plates, the book features paintings, drawings and photographs made between the late 1980s and 1997.
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Peter Cain
Published by
Matthew Marks Gallery, 2017
ISBN 10: 1944929037
ISBN 13: 9781944929039
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Seller: Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This is the first comprehensive monograph on Peter Cain, who first achieved fame in the early-1990s for his paintings of distorted automobiles. Rendered with precision, their gleaming surfaces intensified the seductiveness of the advertisements on which they were based, leading one critic at the time to call them "literal and figurative icons of autoeroticism." In 1995, in a departure from the car paintings, Cain began a new series of paintings. Each composition part figure study, part landscape depicts his boyfriend Sean's reclining head and shoulders on a beach. These new works signaled, in the words of critic Peter Schjeldahl, "the creation of a new high style able intelligently to capture intimate nuances of contemporary Eros on a public scale." The following year Cain took up another new subject: gas stations and strip malls around Los Angeles. In January 1997, less than a month before their first exhibition, he died tragically from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was thirty-seven years old. Illustrated with more than eighty full-color plates, this book features paintings, drawings, and photographs made between 1987 and 1997. Beau Rutland's essay provides a comprehensive overview of Cain's work and its unique place in the New York art world of the 1980s and 1990s, while Collier Schorr offers a meditation on desire and power inspired by Cain's car paintings. Richard Meyer's essay examines the Sean paintings, which suspend their subject "between intimacy and abstraction." Accompanying these essays are source images, preparatory collages, and historical photos of the artist and his studio, all published here for the first time. Clothbound with jacket. 164 pages, 133 images. 11½ × 10 inches; 29 × 25 cm. Seller Inventory # ABE-1610654977978
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Hardcover with dustjacket, 164 pages, as new condition; light rubbing to dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # PeCaMa40.1
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Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized. Seller Inventory # M1944929037Z3
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Peter Cain
Published by
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1944929037
ISBN 13: 9781944929039
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First Edition
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2017. First Edition. Quarto (30x26x2cm); 162pp, including list of exhibitions and bibliography. Color images of Cain's work throughout, with additional background, personal, and studio photographs. Photographic dustjacket. Black boards with blacker lettering on spine and front panel. Both jacket and volume pristine. This is the first major monograph on the paintings of dysmorphic, impossible, but still appealingly sexy cars by Peter Cain (1959-1997)who knew how to compress sizzling cars and sizzling boyfriends into tightly delimited spaces. Seller Inventory # 9991