Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : Under-Song for a Cipher

2016

Boek; 124 p ill

Met lijst werken. - Met biografie

Tent. New York, New Museum, 03-05-2016, 03-09-2016 ; A Passion To A Principle, Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, 18-11-2017, 12-02-2017. - Monografie toont schilderijen van de Britse kunstenares Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (Londen 1977). - The lush oil paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye embrace many of the conventions of historical European portraiture, but expand on that tradition by engaging fictional subjects who often serve as protagonists of the artist's short stories as well. These imagined figures are almost always black, an attribute Yiadom-Boakye sees as both political and autobiographical, given her own West African heritage. Her elegant characters come to life through the artist's bold brushwork, appearing both cavalier and nonchalant.

Located in: YIADOM-BOAKYE, LYNETTE

ISBN: 978-0-915557-14-1

VUBIS: 2:101045