Kurt Kauper: Paintings 2001-2007

by Pepe Karmel, Wayne Koestenbaum, Priya Bhatnagar, et al.

According to The New York Times, "It would be easy to read Kurt Kauper's nude portraits of the former hockey players Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson as a rote comment on the fragile state of American (or Canadian) masculinity. They work better as an erotic and personal tribute, one that draws on the artist's childhood in a Bruins-worshiping Boston suburb; the neo-Classical figuration of Jacques-Louis David; and the overt sensuality of pre-Stonewall...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977868680
• ISBN13: 9780977868681
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Deitch Projects
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.7" x 11.4"