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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : Natures, natural and unnatural
- Title
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : Natures, natural and unnatural / [editor Omar Kholeif].
- Publication
- London : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | ND497.Y53 A4 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 95 pages : colour illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Turner Prize nominated artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) known for her striking figurative paintings of imagined characters, selects works inspired by nature from the V-A-C collection. Celebrating the arrival of Spring is 'Natures, Natural and Unnatural', a display that uses nature as inspiration in different ways: as still life, in the abstract, as a feeling or as an environment. Through painting, photography and film this exhibition considers how people interact with nature, both indoors and outdoors. Indeed, it is a force that is as sublime as it is threatening. The artists herein explore the intoxicating sensuality of the floral scent: flora, fauna and human nature itself. Highlights include David Hockney's '30 Sunflowers' (1996), a vibrantly coloured oil on canvas, and Peter Doig's large-scale painting 'Green Trees' (1998) depicting an imagined, lush, tropical forest. Also featured is a video by Estonian artist Jan Toomik, 'Dancing with Dad' (2003), which shows the artist dancing in a sunlit woodland where his father was buried and Andy Warhol's brightly coloured screen-print of a cow. The exhibition highlights the V-A-C collection, Moscow as part of the Whitechapel Gallery's programme of opening up rarely seen collections from around the world." -- Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Natures, natural and unnatural
- Subject
- Note
- Published in 2015 on the occasion of the exhibition "Natures, natural and unnatural", held at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 17 March-14 June 2015.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Sponsor's foreword -- Collector's foreword -- Natural histories / Iwona Blazwick -- Natures, natural and unnatural / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, in conversation with Habda Rashid -- In the very nature / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- Installation views, Whitechapel Gallery, London -- Works selected from the V-A-C collection -- Spring has sprung! / Omar Kholeif -- White Cube ecologies / Petra Lange-Berndt
- ISBN
- 0854882391
- 9780854882397
- LCCN
- 2015513350
- (YBP)100611934
- OCLC
- on1063761086
- SCSB-1845243
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library