Artists' book consisting of texts and Autopolaroid self-portraits. "Everything Lucas Samaras has created is to a degree a self-portrait. This book - autobiographical psychoanalysis, autophoto album, autointerview - is a unique multimedia portrait of the artist. What he says becomes visible in his photographs, and the photographic images are implicit in his writing. A statement made by Samaras to the critic Lawrence Alloway six years ago provides a few clues to his subtle, devious, poetic contents of his works: 'The manner in which art objects are made are erotic gestures .. in the presence of an artistic creation there is a seeming merging of the self with a highly erotic reality called beauty... The eroticism isn't connected with life and death or with a partner's changing moods; it is continuous. AUTOEROTIC. Narcissism is making one's body into art.' Samaras has done just that in this most extraordinary book, which we consider his most important work to date." -- Jean Lipman, Editor of Publications, Whitney Museum of American Art, from book's colophon.