Scope and Contents Amazon.com: The art of embellishing popular reproduction usually entails irreverence, whether it be Duchamp's famous additions to a postcard of the Mona Lisa or the kinds of tweaking seen on subway advertisements. The Mexican artist known as Dr. Lakra embellishes 1950s pinup-magazine reproductions to introduce a content not only irreverent but uncomfortable (and certainly contrary to the intentions of his soft-porn source material)--mortality. The series of works that comprise this velvet-bound volume began with a collection of vintage magazines about nudist camps that Lakra bought at the Sunday market on Brick Lane in London. He set to work despoiling the hygienically upbeat sensuality of these nude models with a morbid parade of skeletons and ghouls, who paw and loom at their prey with crude, lascivious glee, dragging both sex and death down to the level of earthy fact. Lakra's ghouls are not mere doodles; in their visual character, these creatures draw on the Day of the Dead...

Scope and Contents This catalogue depicts raw material for the making of collages. Dr Lakra's birth name was Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez. In April 2010, an exhibition of his works took place at the institute of Contemporary Art Boston. Roberta Smith in the New york Times commented as follows. On Wednesday the INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART in Boston will open the first museum exhibition in this country devoted to the work of DR. LAKRA. Dr. Who? you ask? Dr. Lakra is the well-chosen adopted name of Jeronimo Lopez Rami­rez, who was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1972. "Lakra" is Spanish slang for delinquent, and "lacra" means scar. He is a self-taught practitioner of the somewhat renegade art of tattooing "” which involves a deliberate, refined form of scarring. Dr. Lakra's work was first exhibited in New York in the groundbreaking "Pierced Hearts and True Love" tattoo exhibition at the Drawing Center in 1995. Since then he has become only the latest crossover artist to achieve prominence in the...