Tracey Moffatt: Laudanum - Hardcover

Moffatt, Tracy; Berg, Stefan; Tolnay, Alexander; Ulmer Museum

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ISBN 10: 377570874X ISBN 13: 9783775708746

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 1999

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Since her exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York in 1997/98, Australian artist Tracey Moffatt has been one of the most-watched international artists. Of Aboriginal descent, Moffatt combines the artificial aspects of theater and film with a kinetic documentary approach to achieve highly emotional films and photographic series located on the border between reality and the surreal. Drawing on well-known pictorial styles from film, photography and art history and adopting elements of advertising and trash-TV, Moffatt explores existential themes -- sexuality and power, birth and death, desires, dreams and memories -- as well as Aboriginal related themes concerning the unknown, the outcast, and the marginal. Her visual scenarios are imbued with atmospheric strangeness and contradictory emotions. This book offers a representative selection of her work, including the until now unpublished 1998 series "laudanum".

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Tracey Moffatt creates highly emotional pictorial sequences that are concerned with the existential themes of sexuality and power, birth and death, desires, dreams and memories. She draws on familiar images from films, photography and art history, and adopts stylistic methods from advertising and trash TV. The clash between the traditions of Australian aborigines and the Anglo-Saxon culture of the former colonialists is also a strand in Moffatt's art. This book offers a representative selection of her work, including the series "laudanum" which was completed in 1998.

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