Research Catalog

Title

Luc Tuymans / edited by Madeleine Grynsztejn and Helen Molesworth ; essays by Helen Molesworth ... [et al.].

Author

Tuymans, Luc, 1958-

Publication

San Francisco : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; Columbus, Ohio : Wexner Center for the Arts ; New York : In association with D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grynsztejn, Madeleine
• Molesworth, Helen, 1966-
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Wexner Center for the Arts

Description

228 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.

Summary

"Luc Tuymans is one of today's most widely admired painters, a continuation of the great tradition of Northern European painting and an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists. As a European child of the 1950s, his relationship to painting is inevitably structured by television, cinema and by the lingering effects of World War II; more recent historical preoccupations have included the dramatic turn of world events post-9/11. Tuymans combines a muted palette with deteriorated surface effect and a singular use of cropping, close-up and sequencing--perfect devices with which to undertake his investigation of the pathological, the banal and the conspiratorial. Published in conjunction with the artist's first full-scale American survey, this is without question the authoritative publication on Tuymans. It features approximately 75 key works from 1978 to the present, and is accompanied by essays analyzing the painter's main concerns, with particular attention paid to his working process and his adaptation of source materials. Helen Molesworth examines themes of sinister banality, Joseph Leo Koerner writes on iconophobia and iconophilia, Ralph Rugoff considers the nature of visual experience in light of Tuymans' recent work, and Bill Horrigan examines cinematic sources. This book is not only the most comprehensive survey of Tuymans' career to date, but also the most thorough chronology of his artistic development." -- Publisher's description.

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• Tuymans, Luc, 1958- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio and four other institutions between Sept. 17, 2009 and May 8, 2011.
• Catalog produced by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Directors' foreword / by Neal Benezra and Sherri Geldin -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Introduction and acknowledgments / by Madeleine Grynsztejn and Helen Molesworth -- Luc Tuymans : painting the banality of evil / by Helen Molesworth -- Monstrance / by Joseph Leo Koerner -- Luc Tuymans : inside the box / by Ralph Rugoff -- Cinema, Belgium, Tuymans : a note / by Bill Horrigan -- Plates / with texts by Alison Gass ... [et al.] -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Exhibition history and reviews -- Selected bibliography -- Photography credits.

ISBN

• 9781933045986 (hardcover)
• 1933045981 (hardcover)
• 9780918471826 (pbk.)
• 0918471826 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009021456

OCLC

• 319498215
• SCSB-11151263

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library