Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras

Throughout his remarkably prolific career of more than 40 years, Lucas Samaras has built a diverse and highly textured body of work, largely with his own image. Self-depiction is arguably the driving force of his life's work. This book, the catalogue for a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, focuses on his self-portraiture. Marla Prather surveys Samaras's career from the late 1950s to the present, tracing his self-portraits in various mediums, including drawings, photography, boxes, mirrored environments, and film, and discusses his significant influence on younger artists. This outstanding review of Samaras's oeuvre contains 485 illustrations, 438 of which are in color, and includes four double gatefolds, and five acetates that reproduce fragile cut-paper subjects.