Marilyn Minter has long been creating hyperrealistic paintings of the female body, from lipsticked lips to high-heeled feet, in tight, cropped compositions full of decadent color and provocative sexual implications. Now, her focus is turned toward a part of the female body that remains somewhat taboo for the 21st-century: female pubic hair. The New York artist has teamed up with Fulton Ryder, the book shop and publishing company helmed by artist Richard Prince. Ms. Minter's book, titled Plush, is an up-close examination of the au naturel, unshaved crotch-think an updated take on Courbet's L'Origine du monde, and with a distinctly female gaze-through a series of new photographs and paintings. The book is published in a limited run of 500 copies.

Plush

Marilyn Minter

New York: Fulton Ryder

A brief exhibition catalog for the controversial Marilyn Minter, who, since her retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 2005, is considered a major protagonist in the American art scene. Represented in key collections such as MoMA, LA MOCA and the Whitney, Minter has attracted wide attention with work such as her virtuoso spectacles of erotically charged sensuality: in her paintings, photographs and video works, high heels, pearls, sweat, and skin are rendered in larger-than-life compositions. The catalog encompasses nearly 40 works, beginning with Minter's early photographs which portray her drug-addicted mother, and including the video ''100 Food Porn Commercials,'' and the Food Porn paintings. Other works were created after 2000, right up to the large-format works Glisterine and Chesire from 2011.

Marilyn Minter (English and German Edition)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Snoeck / Deichtor Hallen

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Plush

Marilyn Minter (English and German Edition)