Marlene Dumas: One Hundred Models and Endless Rejects - Hardcover

Dumas, Marlene; Morgan, Jessica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775710132 ISBN 13: 9783775710138

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2001

Synopsis

'I use all the cheap tricks of attracting attention: eyes looking at you, sexual parts exposed or deliberately covered. The primitve pull of recognition. The image as prostitute.' Marlene Dumas has been cultivating her very unique position within figurative painting since the early Eighties, focusing on the topic of the human image. The artist does not use models but takes images from the media and popular culture, resorting to her own photographs or pictures from newspapers or television. Dumas does not intend to provoke, but instead raises questions about (gender) identity, oppression, sexual and ethnic violence, the position of women and minorities, always seeking to initiate new thought-processes. This book, featuring the series of drawings Models and Rejects, gives an overview of her work over the last ten years.

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South African artist Marlene Dumas has cultivated a unique position within the world of figurative painting since the early 1980s, focusing on how the human body is translated into an image. Dumas dose not use models, but instead takes her images from mass media and popular culture sources, particularly newspapers and television. According to Dumas, ''what interested me was to make a statement about peoples' frames of mind and the relationships between them.'' Dumas' pictures impress with their urgent realism--but within their provocative energy lurk provocative questions about gender, identity, oppression, sexual and ethnic violence, and the situation of women and minorities; Dumas is always seeking to initiate new thought processes and critical strategies. Featuring the series of drawings One Hundred Models and Endless Rejects, this book provides an overview of the last ten years of Dumas' brilliant and challenging work.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775710132
• ISBN 13: 9783775710138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160