Luc Tuymans /
Luc Tuymans /
Ulrich Loock, Juan Vicente Aliaga, Nancy Spector.
- London : Phaidon, 1996.
- 160p. ill. (chiefly col.) 25 x 29 cm
- Contemporary artists .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159).
Interview: Juan Vicente Aliaga in conversation with Luc Tuymans / Ulrich Loock -- On layers of sign-relations, in the light of mechanically reproduced pictures, from ten years of exhibitions / Nancy Spector -- The Unforgiving Trace / Andrei Platonov -- Chevengur (extract), 1928 / Luc Tuymans -- Disenchantment, 1991.
Luc Tuymans is a Belgian artists who emerged in the late 1980s. His work fuses the traditions of Old Master Flemish and Spanish genre painting with a late 20th century sensibility. Ulrich Loock uses Tuymans' installation of exhibitions as a way of mapping key themes. Juan Vicente Aliaga reveals sources and motivations through his dialogue with the artist, whilst curator and critic Nancy Spector explores the narrative possibilities of one painting, Pillows. Tuymans selects Chevengur, a primitivist, magical tale by Russian author Andrei Platonov, and gives a fascinating account of his work in the essay 'Disenchantment'.
9780714835518 071483551X
b96X5696
Tuymans, Luc--Criticism and interpretation.
Painting, Belgian.
Painting, Modern--Belgium.--20th century
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159).
Interview: Juan Vicente Aliaga in conversation with Luc Tuymans / Ulrich Loock -- On layers of sign-relations, in the light of mechanically reproduced pictures, from ten years of exhibitions / Nancy Spector -- The Unforgiving Trace / Andrei Platonov -- Chevengur (extract), 1928 / Luc Tuymans -- Disenchantment, 1991.
Luc Tuymans is a Belgian artists who emerged in the late 1980s. His work fuses the traditions of Old Master Flemish and Spanish genre painting with a late 20th century sensibility. Ulrich Loock uses Tuymans' installation of exhibitions as a way of mapping key themes. Juan Vicente Aliaga reveals sources and motivations through his dialogue with the artist, whilst curator and critic Nancy Spector explores the narrative possibilities of one painting, Pillows. Tuymans selects Chevengur, a primitivist, magical tale by Russian author Andrei Platonov, and gives a fascinating account of his work in the essay 'Disenchantment'.
9780714835518 071483551X
b96X5696
Tuymans, Luc--Criticism and interpretation.
Painting, Belgian.
Painting, Modern--Belgium.--20th century