{"product_id":"anthony-cudahy-spinneret-9781580936675","title":"Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first comprehensive monograph on this leading American contemporary figurative painter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpinneret \u003c\/i\u003edraws inspiration from the eponymous silk-producing organ that spiders use to weave their webs. Anthony Cudahy's figurative paintings tenderly piece together enigmatic scenes of specific objects and equivocal environments from interwoven references drawn from queer archives, art history, film, poetry, friends, and autobiography. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlate sections feature brief written reflections on Cudahy's themes, style, and motifs from fellow artists and writers Ian Lewandowski, Paul Legault, Anna Glantz, Philemona Williamson, Lily Wong, Justin Liam O'Brien, Billy Sullivan, John Belknap, and Elizabeth Glaessner. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpinneret\u003c\/i\u003e spans the last half-decade of Cudahy's career to date, including brand new work, and unpacks his richly layered artistic practice. Organized by five artistic themes - slippages, allegories, fragments, figures, spaces - it captures the ongoing push and pull, conceptually and materially, across the artist's practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Cudahy\u003c\/b\u003e is a figurative painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDevon Zimmerman\u003c\/b\u003e is the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria H. Loh\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of Art History at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRicardo Montez\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of Performance Studies at Rutgers University where he teaches in English and Art History. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Monacelli Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50652001206546,"sku":"9781580936675","price":50.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_04ca57ba-bde3-434b-a6e5-eaac2b7e461f.jpg?v=1733314950","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/anthony-cudahy-spinneret-9781580936675","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}