By stripping the painting down to its basic rules, and by using himself as a decisive subject matter, Albert Oehlen created a body of work that diminished the limitations of previous cultural, aesthetic, and artistic obligations made on a painter and painting. This first volume to feature all of Oehlen's early self-portraits reveals his balancing of figuration with abstraction, and his simultaneous questioning of the practice and history of art. The book contains an interview between Albert Oehlen and Rainald Goetz, in German and English translation. Luhring Augustine, 2002 7 x 12 inches, 84 pp., color illustrations Hardcover, ISBN 9780970909015