The Liz Taylor Series, The First 25 years: 1982-2007 is the first major artist's book by the influential feminist artist Kathe Burkhart.

Burkhart's Liz Taylor Series, which includes over 200 paintings and drawings of Elizabeth Taylor, is a highly performative serial work that blurs portraiture and self-portraiture, public and private, text and image, and fiction and non-fiction. For Burkhart, Taylor is a multi-faceted doppelganger, a macrocosm of female identities against which to measure herself. Taylor's multiple personae - actress, vixen, Hollywood royalty, serial wife and divorcee, party girl, charitable humanitarian, entrepreneur, rebel, dominant woman - meld into a complete media-based mirror of contemporary female identity. Burkhart bases her paintings on tabloid and paparazzi shots, film stills and publicity photos of Ms. Taylor, and then brands and emblazons the images with profanity, reclaiming female sexuality and seizing power.

The Liz Taylor Series is a comprehensive collection of the first twenty-five years of this powerful body of work, the book includes nearly every Liz Taylor image Ms. Burkhart has made to date since 1982; when presented in its complete context, the series' intensity and influence is undeniable.

The Liz Taylor Series, distributed by D.A.P. Inc., measures 9 x 6.5 inches, contains 209 pages, and retails for $45.