Tuymans' monochromatic palette and his choice of subject matter - domestic interiors, commonplace objects and family portraits - link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The sources of images on many of his canvases give his work a brooding violence. Although modest in scale and sensitive in execution, his work is powerful in its haunting evocation of lost lives and repressed histories. In general, Tuymans' works are painted in groups for each show and with the venue and the exhibition space in mind. ...
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Tuymans' monochromatic palette and his choice of subject matter - domestic interiors, commonplace objects and family portraits - link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The sources of images on many of his canvases give his work a brooding violence. Although modest in scale and sensitive in execution, his work is powerful in its haunting evocation of lost lives and repressed histories. In general, Tuymans' works are painted in groups for each show and with the venue and the exhibition space in mind. For example, when he represented his country in the Belgian Pavilion at the 2001 Venice Biennale, Tuymans produced a cycle of works based on the murder of the first post-independence Prime Minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Other works in the cycle show images of copies of African sculpture - a statue in a Belgian restaurant, for instance - and images from the Belgian Royal Museum's African collection. These works raised issues about colonialism and post-colonialism but also came at a time when a parliamentary commission was investigating the links between the Belgian government, the royal family's policies and the death of Lumumba. The surfaces of Luc Tuymans' paintings are monochromatic and frail, as if recuperating from a long illness. In the long-standing tradition of Flemish and Spanish still-life painting, they represent domestic scenes or commonplace objects such as a pillow or a cake. These still lifes resonate, however, with a sense of the uncanny. Hovering beneath the surface of Tuymans' quiet paintings are deep-seated anxieties that rise to the surface in his depictions of faces or parts of the body. Though sensitive in execution and often modest in scale, the work's power lies in conveying a sense of violence, or a haunting evocation of lost lives and repressed histories. Ulrich Loock, curator of the artist's exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern (1992) and author of influential texts on recent European art, uses Tuyman's installation of exhibitions as a way of mapping key themes in his Survey. Juan Vicente Aliaga, critic for Frieze and Artforum, reveals sources and motivations through his Interview with the artist. In the Focus, Nancy Spector, whose writings have been published in Artforum and Parkett, explores the narrative possibilities of the painting Pillows (1994). Tuymans selects Chevengur (1928) for Artist's Choice, a primitivist, magical tale by Russian author Andrei Platanov, and gives a fascinating account of his work in the essay 'Disenchantment' (1991). Bern-based critic Hans Rudolf Reust surveys Tuymans' works from 1996 to the present, including the artist's important cycle of works Mwana Kitoko, a critical look at Belgium's colonial past.
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Luc Tuymans. Fine in fine jacket. Profusely illustrated. 260 pages, 4to, stiff printed white wrappers with pictorial dust wrapper. New York: Phaidon Press, (2004). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1600grams, ISBN: 9780714842981.
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Very good. Covers are white with black lettering rather than the artistic covers shown. Covers show some browning, scuffing and a few very light scratches. Spine shows some creasing.
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New in New jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the title page by Tuymans. Hardcover. White laminated wrappers with title printed in black on cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Paintings and text by Luc Tuymans. Text by Nancy Spector, Ulrich Loock and Juan Vicente Aliaga. 260 pp., with 250 four-color and 40 black-and-white illustrations. 11-3/8 x 9-7/8 inches. New in New dust jacket (opened only for signature). Luc Tuymans' paintings are more photographic than most photographs. His work is deeply rooted in the aesthetics of memory, the stream of media images in our culture, cinema and video, the "photographic" cues that we expect--the way the edges of light look in an enlarged low-resolution image, the fragmentation in a snapshot, the "physicality" of a Polaroid--and the apparent randomness of his wide-ranging subject matter (from the Holocaust to the specific pink color of the Financial Times). From the publisher: "Tuymans' monochromatic palette and his choice of subject matter-domestic interiors, commonplace objects and family portraits-link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The sources of images on many of his canvases give his work a brooding violence. Although modest in scale and sensitive in execution, his work is powerful in its haunting evocation of lost lives and repressed histories." Signed by Author.
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New in New jacket. Price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply. SPECIAL ORDER: PRICING & AVAILABILITY SUBJECT TO CHANGE. SHIPPING NOTE: due to size and weight, additional shipping fees apply (calculated at checkout). First edition, first printing. Includes a silkscreen print, "The Worshipper" (11-3/8 x 9-7/8 inches), in an edition of 100, signed by Tuymans. The edition includes a signed and numbered custom-bound special edition of the book, contained in a custom, cloth-covered clamshell box. Hardcover. Cloth-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Paintings and text by Luc Tuymans. Text by Nancy Spector, Ulrich Loock and Juan Vicente Aliaga. 260 pp., with 250 four-color and 40 black-and-white illustrations. 11-3/8 x 9-7/8 inches. New in publisher's packaging. Luc Tuymans' paintings are more photographic than most photographs. His work is deeply rooted in the aesthetics of memory, the stream of media images in our culture, cinema and video, the "photographic" cues that we expect--the way the edges of light look in an enlarged low-resolution image, the fragmentation in a snapshot, the "physicality" of a Polaroid--and the apparent randomness of his wide-ranging subject matter (from the Holocaust to the specific pink color of the Financial Times). From the publisher: "Tuymans' monochromatic palette and his choice of subject matter-domestic interiors, commonplace objects and family portraits-link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The sources of images on many of his canvases give his work a brooding violence. Although modest in scale and sensitive in execution, his work is powerful in its haunting evocation of lost lives and repressed histories." Signed by Author.
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