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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye / with contributions by Naomi Beckwith, Donatien Grau, Jennifer Higgie, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Munich : Prestel, [2014]Copyright date: ♭2014Description: 135 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783791349671
Contained works:
  • Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977- Works. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
Don't Explain / Jennifer Higgie
The Meaning of Restraint / Donatien Grau
Plans of the Night / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
In Conversation / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Naomi Beckwith
Summary: This volume celebrates and explores Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's enigmatic paintings. Based in London, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has emerged in recent years as a major talent in the international art scene, winning widespread acclaim for her large-scale, luminous portraits. Working in a luxuriously dark, muted palette offset by bursts of radiant color, Yiadom-Boakye paints subjects from her imagination, whose stories she sometimes elaborates through short fiction. Whether with a shy smile, leering, or evading one's gaze, Yiadom-Boakye's subjects consistently confront the viewer with a beguiling sense of intimacy and the implication of larger, hidden life. This volume surveys the artist's remarkable career to date through beautiful, full-page illustrations. Also featured are two critical essays that assess the artist's practice and distinctive approach to portraiture, an interview with the artist, as well as short stories by the artist that give life to her paintings.

Includes bibliographical references.

Don't Explain / Jennifer Higgie

The Meaning of Restraint / Donatien Grau

Plans of the Night / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

In Conversation / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Naomi Beckwith

This volume celebrates and explores Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's enigmatic paintings. Based in London, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has emerged in recent years as a major talent in the international art scene, winning widespread acclaim for her large-scale, luminous portraits. Working in a luxuriously dark, muted palette offset by bursts of radiant color, Yiadom-Boakye paints subjects from her imagination, whose stories she sometimes elaborates through short fiction. Whether with a shy smile, leering, or evading one's gaze, Yiadom-Boakye's subjects consistently confront the viewer with a beguiling sense of intimacy and the implication of larger, hidden life. This volume surveys the artist's remarkable career to date through beautiful, full-page illustrations. Also featured are two critical essays that assess the artist's practice and distinctive approach to portraiture, an interview with the artist, as well as short stories by the artist that give life to her paintings.