On&by Luc Tuymans

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The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential figurative painters working today. Born in 1958 and based in Antwerp, he has exhibited since 1985, with recent retrospectives in Europe and the United States. From the beginning, his work addressed the challenge to painting's legitimacy posed by minimal and conceptual art by taking a sidestep: creating works that seem to have emerged from a preceding era, alienated from their producer. This volume collects the artist's statements on his own work as well as his writing on other artists, filmmakers, photographers, philosophers. and writers who have engaged with his thought. The second half of the volume surveys his major bodies of work in texts by leading art historians, critics, theorists and fellow artists.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  Written works,  Written workstuymans, luc , 1958-,  Criticism and interpretationtuymans, luc , 1958-,  Nd673.t85 a35 2013,  759.9493,  Art criticism,  Art, belgian

People: Luc Tuymans (1958-)