{"product_id":"9780692842478","title":"Sascha Braunig","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the first volume on the paintings of acclaimed Canadian-born, Portland-based painter Sascha Braunig (born 1983), whose brightly rendered, optically contorted bodies and heads seem to turn on themselves and on their settings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn dreamlike scenes, where repetition and patterning are foregrounded, Braunig’s figures emit an extrasensory glow: flaring with reflected color, they are iridescent beings whose very skin seems to be a source of psychic power. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the occasion of her 2016–17 show at MoMA PS1, curator Peter Eleey wrote: Drawing inspiration from the distorted bodies that litter the histories of modern painting, Braunig adapts these legacies to the discomforts and instabilities of contemporary life … While evocatively dystopic, her paintings also subtly empower their vulnerable subjects, advocating a humanist art for an age in which individual experience seems threatened by forces beyond our control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foxy Production","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019946705136,"sku":"9780692842478","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692842478_p0.jpg?v=1769898458","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692842478","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}