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John Currin

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John Currin is an American painter based in New York City. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner. His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, popular culture magazines, and contemporary fashion models. He often distorts or exaggerates the erotic forms of the female body, and has stressed that his characters are reflections of himself rather than inspired by real people.

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John Currin
John Currin
Dave Eggers, Alison M. Gingeras, John Currin
John Currin, Sadie Coles, Rachel Feinstein
The honeymooners
John Currin and Rachel Feinstein
The honeymooners
John Currin, Sadie Coles, Rachel Feinstein
Beauty
Beauty
Fredric Jameson, James Elkins, Elaine Scarry, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Dave Hickey, Theodor W. Adorno, Griselda Pollock, Andy Warhol, Thierry De Duve, Gerhard Richter, Christoph Grunenberg, Leon Golub, Rosalind Krauss, Diarmuid Costello, Paul Wood, Caroline A. Jones, Arthur Coleman Danto, John Roberts, Mark Cousins, Alexander Alberro, Wendy Steiner, Jason Gaiger, Timothy J. Clark, Richard Woodfield, Rudolf Sagmeister, Robert Smithson, Vito Acconci, Alex Katz, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Nancy Spero, Rasheed Araeen, Agnes Martin, David Raskin, Art & Language, John Currin, Anna Dezeuze, Leo Fitzmaurice, Suzanne Perling Hudson, Mark Hutchinson, Saul Ostrow, Simon O'Sullivan, Dominic Willsdon, Jaques Derrida

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