Picturehood is powerful.(exaggerated females in figurative painting)

Art in America | December 1, 1997| | Copyright

Three young figurative painters--John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage and Catherine Howe--focus almost exclusively on female subjects. Here, the author suggests how this trio's provocative manipulation of kitsch and of exaggerated sexual characteristics can be read in formal and allegorical terms.

If you're looking for signs of a rupture in art, it's always worth looking for what people hate, or what they love in ways that are curiously akin to hate. Certainly the work of three young figurative painters. John Currin, Catherine Howe and Lisa Yuskavage, has been a lightning rod ...

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