This text features the artist Marlene Dumas commenting through her work on the state of painting today. She asks the question - what does it mean to be a woman working within the predominantly male genre of expressionist art? The artist often chooses women, children and infants as her subject matter, examining the relation between art and female beauty. The authors then analyze Dumas's work, with subjects such as: the development of Dumas's work in relation to the legacies of European painting; questions contemporary women artists are asked; and a look at the artist's painting "Josephine", reflecting on the iconic legacy of Josephine Baker. The book also features selections from Dumas's writings, including texts on her own work, meditations on love, religion and politics, and a discussion of Goya's painting "The Fates". The book is part of a series of studies of important artists of the late-20th century. Each title offers a comprehensive survey of the artist's work, providing analyses and multiple perspectives on contemporary art and its inspiration.

Marlene Dumas (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Barbara Bloom

Mariuccia Casadio

Dominic Van Den Boogerd

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

Marlene Dumas?s work is widely admired for its emotionally-charged portrayal of the human figure and its potent combination of drama, humor and sexuality. Born in South Africa in 1953 and based in Amsterdam, Dumas is a highly-skilled ?painter?s painter?; her work comments on the state of painting today while asking what it means to be a woman working within the predominantly male genre of Expressionist art. Dumas?s work is collected and exhibited internationally, and since the publication of the first edition of this book, her following has continued to grow. This revised edition, with a new essay by Ilaria Bonacossa and new writings by Dumas, has been expanded by 80 pages to include the artist?s most recent work.

Marlene Dumas

Ilaria Bonacossa

Han Schuil, born in the Netherlands in 1958, is one of the major forces in Dutch painting today. As Dominic van den Boogerd puts it in his introduction to this splendid overview of Schuil's work: "The paintings of Han Schuil reflect something of the urbanized Netherlands of the present, designed down to the last detail. They are crisp, clear images with the immediate impact of a logo. The synthetic colors, the sharp-edged forms and the balanced compositions give the paintings a strong signaling effect, while the irregular contours and surfaces add strength to their physical appearance." Indeed the paintings collected here reveal the engagement of an abstraction-trained artist with the world of comic book icons and advertisement, a world of ubiquitous representation, and the results are both intuitively satisfying and intellectually challenging.

Han Schuil: Schilderijen--Paintings 1983-1999

Bert Jansen

NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Dan Walsh : Pressing Matter

Robert Nickas

Paula Van Den Bosch

Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

I can resist everything"", wrote Oscar Wilde, ""except temptation"". What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers in Amsterdam. About the pleasures and pitfalls of painting, forbidden favourites and the flirtation between the art of painting and other muses.

Dominic Van Den Boogerd - Great Temptations

Roma Publications

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