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Portraits : Luc Tuymans

Title
Portraits : Luc Tuymans / essays by Toby Kamps and Robert Storr.
Author
Tuymans, Luc, 1958-
Publication
  • Houston, Texas : Menil Collection, [2013]
  • New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2013]
  • ©2013

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Additional Authors
  • Storr, Robert.
  • Kamps, Toby.
  • Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), host institution.
Description
127 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 29 cm
Summary
Luc Tuymans is a painter engaged with "figuration", using imagery that he reworks in a critical or self-critical way. He combines images from various sources - photographs, film stills, mirror images - with a spare palette, unexpected cropping, obscured spaces and blurring to reinforce the painted image's status as a replica. Perhaps more than any other genre, portraiture allows Tuymans to explore the balance between revealing and concealing. Portraits: Luc Tuymans presents about 30 paintings from bodies of work ranging over the artist's entire career. Most seem conventional portraits - Himmler, 1997/98, A Flemish Intellectual, 1995 - but others, such as Bloodstains, 1993, and Fingers, 1995, exhibit the artist's elliptical approach to re-presentation. Exhibition: The Menil Collection, Houston, USA (27.09.-05.01.2014).
Alternative Title
Luc Tuymans
Subject
  • Tuymans, Luc, 1958- > Exhibitions
  • Portrait painting > Belgium > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Portrait painting > Belgium > 21st century > Exhibitions
Note
  • Catalog of the exhibition "Nice. Luc Tuymans" held at The Menil Collection, Houston, September 27, 2013-January 5, 2014.
Call Number
JQF 14-54
ISBN
  • 9780300196443
  • 030019644X
LCCN
2013945344
OCLC
844731566
Author
Tuymans, Luc, 1958- artist.
Title
Portraits : Luc Tuymans / essays by Toby Kamps and Robert Storr.
Publisher
Houston, Texas : Menil Collection, [2013]
Distributor
New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Storr, Robert.
Kamps, Toby.
Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 14-54
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