Lure.

"Lure" is an artist’s book by Allyson Clay with four texts accompanied by four black and white plans for paintings. The texts give detailed and technical instructions on how to construct conventional hard-edged abstract paintings. The instructions, however, are interspersed with words and passages of a narrative and subjective quality. The seriousness of making the abstract paintings is undercut by the textual intervention; however, the intervening text is also serious since it is assertive, emotional, and elevates the subjectivity of the artist in contrast to an ossified tradition of painting.