Luc Tuymans - Peter Ruyffelaere

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KORTE INHOUD

Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential figurative painters working today. Born in 1958 and based in Antwerp, he has exhibited since 1985, emerging internationally in the early 1990s as an artist who has addressed not just the continuation of painting’s relevance but subjects as difficult to represent as the long-lasting traumas of war, colonialism and everyday violence. Tuymans has also been a filmmaker, a curator of his own art and its context, an exhibitor of other artists past and present, and an eloquent writer on his work and that of the image-makers, thinkers and authors who affect him. His pictures are ghosted by language, always in a relationship with their precisely considered titles and the constant articulation of reflections on their themes and ideas.

Edited by the historian and publisher Peter Ruyffelaere and with an introduction by critic and curator Adrian Searle, this volume collects Tuymans’ writings on his own and others’ images, from Van Eyck, Velázquez and El Greco to Edouard Manet, Gi...
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2013Uitgever: Thames & Hudson240 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte:  210x148ISBN-10: 0854882170ISBN-13: 9780854882175

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