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Lucas Samaras (born 1936) is a Greek-American artist.[1]

Lucas Samaras
Self-portrait, Photo-Transformation, Polaroid SX-70 print, 1973, Getty Museum
Born	1936 (age 85–86) Kastoria, Greece
Nationality	American
Education	Rutgers University
Known for	Photography, Sculpture, Printmaking

Early life and education

Samaras was born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal.

Career

Samaras participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for Segal's plaster sculptures.[2] Claes Oldenburg, in whose Happenings he also participated, later referred to Samaras as one of the "New Jersey school," which also included Kaprow, Segal, George Brecht, Robert Whitman, Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks and Roy Lichtenstein. Samaras previously worked in painting, sculpture, and performance art, before beginning work in photography. He subsequently constructed room environments that contained elements from his own personal history.[3] His "Auto-Interviews" were a series of text works that were "self-investigatory" interviews.[4] The primary subject of his photographic work is his own self-image, generally distorted and mutilated. He has worked with multi-media collages, and by manipulating the wet dyes in Polaroid photographic film to create what he calls "Photo-Transformations".

Samaras represented Greece at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, The Venice Biennale (June 7- November 22, 2009) with the multi-installation "PARAXENA" in the Greek Pavilion in the Giardini.[5]

Samaras has been the subject of several portraits by Chuck Close, in media including painting, daguerreotype, and tapestry.[6]

Samaras' sculpture Stiff Box 12 has been outside the University of Michigan Museum of Art since 1997.[7]

Art market

Samaras has been represented by Pace Gallery since 1965.[8]

References

General references

• Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, editors. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings. University of California Press, 1996.
• Jo Applin, '"Materialized Secrets": Samaras, Hesse and the Small Scale Box', Object, no. 4, 2002

Further reading

• Goysdotter, Moa (2013). Impure Vision: American Staged Art Photography of the 1970s. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. ISBN 9789187351006.

External links

• Samaras at Pace Gallery
• Getty Museum bio of Lucas Samaras

На других языках

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[de] Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras (griechisch Λουκάς Σαμαράς, * 14. September 1936 in Kastoria, Griechenland) ist ein US-amerikanisch-griechischer Maler und Bildhauer.

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- [en] Lucas Samaras

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[es] Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras (n. 14 de septiembre de 1936) es un artista griego. Samaras nació en Kastoriá, Grecia. Estudió en la Rutgers University, donde conoció a Allan Kaprow y George Segal. Participó en los "Happenings," de Kaprow y posó para las esculturas de plástico de Segal.[1] Claes Oldenburg, en cuyos Happenings también participó, posteriormente se refiere a Samaras como uno de sus compañeros de la "escuela de Nueva Jersey," que también comprende a Kaprow, Segal, George Brecht, Robert Whitman, Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks y Roy Lichtenstein.

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[ru] Самарас, Лукас

Лу́кас Са́марас (греч. Λουκάς Σαμαράς; род. 14 сентября 1936, Кастория, Греция) — американский художник, скульптор -постмодернист греческого происхождения, автор нео-дадаистских работ в жанрах от абсурдистской скульптуры до видео-арта, один из значимых персонажей современного искусства.

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