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Charles Keeling Lassiter: Metamorphoses Into The Future. With a photocopy of artist's letter to Christe's. Essays by Sylvio Acatos, Rene Berger and Armande Raymond. English Translation By Margie Mounier. Charles Keeling Lassiter's work satirizes contemporary society and makes a parody of life. The biting, violently corrosive irony of his paintings seeks out his fellow men, in particular fellow denizens of the big city, and drags them into the frenetic but meticulously orchestrated "Dance of Death" fray. The throbbing city of New York, where Lassiter was born in 1926, is an electrifying universe that gives an artificial rhythm to people's lives, crowding their souls with many-colored lights and flamboyant music. It jolts people into action and affords them many a joy as intense as short-lived. New York has left its indelible mark on this artist, who devotes himself with a passion to painting and drawing its citizens. The resulting portraits focus on the inner person, the realm of the unconscious. Abstraction in his works - the intermingling of reality, caricature and thought - is a manner of reinventing mankind. This new humanity has evolved, has purposefully been transcended and disfigured by a plastic and pictorial language all in lines, in arabesques, that go on to disappear in the work's ground. Availing himself of a multiplicity of techniques - acrylic, industrial paint, glues, chalks, watercolors, inks, pencil - Lassiter gradually takes over a work's support, The latter's texture, bits of material and the work's theme are brought into fusion: the realm of the unconscious emerges before the artist's eyes and comes to life in the form of a figure that is both caricature and inner thought. The book has some minor wear on the tail, but is in overall very good condition.
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