River of Becoming: The Life and Times of Lucas Samaras

This lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of the consummate self-portraitist Lucas Samaras. Written by Michael Skafidas, it provides a riveting depiction of Samaras’s paradoxical personality through a thorough account of his life and work, from his childhood in wartime Greece through to his artistic career in the United States. In the process, the book becomes an intriguing record of Skafidas’s own relationship with Samaras, as well as a powerful meditation on the art of life-writing.