ART in AMERICA - November / December 1970

New York: Art In America /. Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Volume 58, Number 6; 178 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers slight curling at corners of front wrapper. Cover by Lucas Samaras. Issue features a wonderful original offset lithograph by Robert Rauschenberg printed at Triton Press. Feature article: Autopolaroid by Lucas Samaras. Samaras was born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. 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." ; Art and Art History, Prints, Most Recent Listing .