Lucas Samaras: A Life

MICHAEL SKAFIDAS

A tour de force of narcissism and inventive art . . .
Art and life seamlessly integrate in perpetual metamorphic motion.

––Donald Kuspit



From his sensitive evocation of Samaras’s childhood in wartime Greece through to his perceptive interpretation of the artist’s career in the United States, Michael Skafidas has produced an outstanding account of his subject’s life and work. It is also an intriguing record of his own relationship with Samaras, and a powerful mediation on the art of life-writing.