Print:  Color Cover, Color Interior
Size:  11 1/2 x 13 1/2
Pages:  252
ISBN:  ‎978-1934491690
Parental Rating:  R - mature themes, sexuality
Publication Date:  2019

  

 

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Description: 252 pgs, 160 color plates and 3 gatefolds. This comprehensive monograph of major works by the artist between 2002 to 2019, follows the thematic evolution of each body of work throughout Cavener’s 20 year career.

• Complete a Collector’s Catalog listing all work made between 1995-2019
• Printed on a Premium Italian heavy weight paper, 200 gram Gardamatte paper, framed by 170 gram black Sirio endsheets
• The Hardcover volume is bound in black Italian Linen with silver stamping on front and spine
• Dust Jacket printed on 170 gram Gardamatte stock with French Folds with UV gloss coating.

The animals in Beth Cavener's work are better described as avatars, embodiments of persons or emotions that disguise her subjects. In this way she gives her subjects an expanded identity, pairing each with an animal that, to one extent or another, explains or parallels their behavior. The animal reveals the subject's primal roots and serves as the lens through which we see the evolution of the subject into a modern being. We ultimately come to understand that the human and the animal are inexorably linked together.

The dynamism of Beth Cavener's figures comes from the constant shifting in our minds from human to animal. It is kinetic, releasing emotional energy caused by the disparity between what we see--the animal form--and what we know--that this is a human portrait. Thus the fascination in Cavener's art is perpetual.