Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden

Publisher: D.A.P. / Tate

Publication Date: 2014

Text by Leontine Coelewij, Colm Toibin. Interview by Theodora Vischer

Marlene Dumas is one of the most prominent and influential painters working today. In an era dominated by the mass media and a proliferation of images, her work is a testament to the meaning and potency of painting. Dumas draws on her expansive visual archive and the nuances of language to create intense, psychologically charged works which explore themes such as sexuality, love, death, and guilt, often referencing art history and current affairs. Her paintings and drawings are characterized by their extraordinary expressiveness and sometimes controversial subject matter. This fully illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the Tate Modern, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Fondation Beyeler. Surveying the artist’s oeuvre from the mid-70s to the present, it features over 100 of her most important paintings and drawings alongside lesser-known works from the early period of her career. The Image as Burden also includes a new interview with the artist; extracts from previously published but lesser-known texts (some available in English for the first time); and a new short story from prize-winning author Colm Tóibín written in response to the paintings. Essays and texts from a wide range of contributors examine the key themes and motifs in her work and reflect on Dumas’s entire career.

Details

Publisher: D.A.P. / Tate

Artist: Marlene Dumas

Contributors: Leontine Coelewij, Colm Toibin, Theodora Vischer

Publication Date: 2014

ISBN: 9781938922541

Retail: $45 US & Canada | £32 | €40

Status: Not Available

Designer: Roger Willems

Printer: Die Keure, Belgium

Binding: Softcover

Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 12 in (23.5 x 30.5 cm)

Pages: 196

Reproductions: 200 color

Artist and Contributors

Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas (b. 1953) is regarded as one of the most influential painters working today. Her paintings and drawings, often devoted to depictions of the human form, are typically culled from the artist’s vast archive of images, including art historical materials, mass media sources, and personal snapshots of friends and family. Gestural, fluid, and frequently spectral, Dumas’s works reframe and re-contextualize her subjects, exploring the boundaries between public and private selves.

Leontine Coelewij

Colm Toibin

Theodora Vischer

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