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Attila Richard Lukacs is one of the art world’s most talented and controversial contemporary artists, best known for his epic paintings that depict masculine, homoerotic imagery, featuring figures such as gay skinheads and military cadets. His work has been exhibited at documenta in Kassel, Germany, as well as in New York, Paris, London, Berlin, and Cologne, among other cities.
A co-publication between Arsenal Pulp Press and three Canadian art galleries, this is the first book to document the work of this important artist, from an unusual perspective—a collection of some 1,200 full-color Polaroid images (twelve per page) taken by Lukacs over the past twenty years as core referents for his paintings, assembled and collaged by Vancouver artist and curator Michael Morris.
Lukacs regularly employs a Polaroid camera as part of his artistic process, using his friends and acquaintances as models; taking advantage of the Polaroid’s unique characteristics, his painterly sensibility is evident in the rich hues and romantic sensuality of these photographs, which are strikingly similar to the paintings that resulted from them.
The book is physically enormous, allowing the Polaroid grids to be printed at their full size. It also features essays by award-winning author Michael Turner (Hard Core Logo); curator Scott Watson; gay writer Stan Persky; and Vince Aletti, the American curator and photography critic for The New Yorker.
Stunning and bold, Polaroids: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris is a remarkable visual and written document on one of the most compelling visual artists working today.
"Regardless of their sexual orientation, or state of (un)dress, there is a beauty, a joy in it all, the unbound ecstasy of a young man on his own away from home for the first time, free to be what he wanted, as he wanted. Would that every young man could have as good a mentor and friend as Michael Morris, a boyfriend like Michael Danger, the manager of Oranienbar in Berlin. All of these elements made up Attila Richard Lukacs, and all of Attila Richard Lukacs goes into his art." —Gay People's Chronicle
"Massive (forget being a 'coffee table book' — put four legs on it and it could be a coffee table), beautifully presented, the book is a must-have for anyone who has an interest in the avant-garde gay visual arts scene."
—EDGE Publications
"An exploration not only of Lukacs’ work, but also of Canadian painting, artistic archives, and the queer art scene of the era." —American Library Association GLBT Round Table
Attila Richard Lukacs is an internationally recognized artist who has exhibited at Documenta in Kassel, Germany, as well as in New York, Paris, Cologne, and Montreal. He is the subject of the 2004 feature documentary Drawing Out the Demons. He has lived in Berlin and New York; he currently lives in Vancouver, Canada. Michael Morris?s art career includes work with Vincent Trasov as part of the Morris/Trasov Archive; his art is housed in institutioins including the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Modern Art. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.