Part of the contemporary artists series.

238pp., 4to., colour frontis., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Phaidon Press LTD., London, 1999 (2009)

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MARLENE DUMAS is celebrated around the world for her highly charged depictions of the human form. In her oil paintings, drawings and watercolours she captures the body in all its states, from pain to pleasure, eroticism to pathos, birth to death. These works often focus on the body as a contested site with regard to issues such as race, pornography and illegal immigration, but also addresses such timeless themes as mortality, sexuality and childhood.

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In the SURVEY Dutch art critic Dominic van den Boogerd examines Dumas's work in relation to a range of conceptual legacies in depictions of the human figure. For the INTERVIEW New York based artist Barbara Bloom discusses with Dumas issues ranging from intellectual process to the representation of the self in art. Journalist and former Editor of Vogue Italia Mariuccia Casadio looks at the painting Josephine (1997) in the FOCUS, reflecting on the iconic legacy of its subject, Josephine Baker. For her ARTIST'S CHOICE Dumas has selected two authors: Oscar Wilde, whose story 'The Fisherman and His Soul' inspired the artist's early series of work on the theme of mermaids; and Jean Genet, whose autobiography Le Jounral du Voleur (1949, trans. Theif's Journal, 1964) finds transgressive beauty in the criminal underworld. Marlene Dumas has often acted as a spokesperson for her work, and ARTISTS WRITINGS features many seminal texts on her own art as well as meditations on love, religion, politics and a discussion of Goya's paintings The Fates. Ilaria Bonacossa's UPDATE provides a complete overview of Dumas's recent paintings and drawings, charting themes in each successive body of work from 1999 to the present.

MARLENE DUMAS, dominic van den boogerd barbara bloom mariuccia casadio ilaria bonacossa

: Van Den Boogerd (D.) et al

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