• The cover has a colorful Samaras work with beads, jewels, and rainbow circles. The book opens like a box.
  • The book is open with a Samaras work on the right page.
  • The book is open with an image of a colorful Samaras work across the pages and foldouts.
  • The book is open with an image of a colorful Samaras work across the pages and foldouts.
  • The cover has a colorful Samaras work with beads, jewels, and rainbow circles. The book opens like a box.
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Lucas Samaras: Kiss Kill/ Perverted Geometry/ Inedibles

$50.00
$50.00

Featuring a distinctive double-sided gatefold cover inspired by Lucas Samaras’s jewel-encrusted boxes, this book was made to accompany overlapping exhibitions of the artist’s work at two of Pace’s New York galleries in 1996, Kiss Kill/Perverted Geometries/Inedibles/Self-Absorption and Photo-Transformations 1973–1976.

The publication features an excerpt from the artist’s “Crude Delights,” a panoramic fold-out, and five spiral-bound sections filled with color reproductions of artworks.

Publication details

Contributor: Lucas Samaras
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 1996
Double Spiral Bound Hardcover, Vintage Title with some shelf wear possible
7 ½ x 11 ¾ inches
The cover has a colorful Samaras work with beads, jewels, and rainbow circles. The book opens like a box.
The book is open with a Samaras work on the right page.
The book is open with an image of a colorful Samaras work across the pages and foldouts.
The book is open with an image of a colorful Samaras work across the pages and foldouts.
The cover has a colorful Samaras work with beads, jewels, and rainbow circles. The book opens like a box.

Lucas Samaras

Eluding historical categorization, Lucas Samaras’s oeuvre is united through its consistent focus on the body and psyche, often emphasizing autobiography. The theme of self-depiction and identity has been a driving force behind his practice, which, at its onset in the early 1960s, advanced the Surrealist idiom yet proposed a radical departure from the presiding themes of Abstract Expressionism and Pop art.

Learn more about the artist