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Mernet Larsen is the first monograph published on the American painter who has recently been rediscovered by the art world as a significant voice in the "extensive, possibly global conversation about how to portray modern, three-dimensional life on two dimensional surfaces" (Roberta Smith, New York Times). Larsen's paintings do not resemble anyone else's. They are a complete world and, in that regard, belong to the tradition that includes Giorgio de Chirico and Rene Magritte. Larsen's paintings are abstracted figurations with Japanese-inspired perspective. Tracing paper cut-outs are used all across the canvas, giving her works a constructed appeal. She pursues radical spatial solutions; eschewing conventional single-point perspective in favour of parallel perspective, reverse perspective and eccentric, seemingly improvised but rigorously seen-through fusions of different systems within the same work. By destabilising the location of the viewer, sometimes indeed to the point of inducing vertigo, she forces us to know, rather than merely see, the situation. Her representational practice grew out of abstraction and is pervaded by awareness of Japanese narrative scrolls. Larsen's subjects include classrooms, coffee shops, vacation spots, and malls -- gathering places. She has also explored people sitting in a car, being fitted, exercising in a gym, adoring a child, riding an escalator, shaking hands, and shooting at an unseen target. The monograph gives a full analysis of Larsen's work of the past thirty years with a focus on her oeuvre since 2000. John Yau presents an in-depth essay that analyses individual works as much as he puts Larsen's work in place with regards to her contemporaries.

About the Author :
Mernet Larsen was born in 1940 in Houghton, Michigan. She is a painter of figurative narratives in highly abstracted style. Larsen used to teach at the University of South Florida for large parts of her career and now divides her time between New York City and Tampa, Florida. Mernet Larsen has been the subject of over 25 solo exhibitions including the New York Studio School Gallery in 2005. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Ringling Museum of Art, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Tampa Museum of Art, and numerous other public and private collections.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788862083065
  • Publisher: Damiani
  • Publisher Imprint: Damiani
  • Height: 285 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Weight: 950 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8862083068
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 246 mm


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