Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (German edition): Fliegen im Verbund mit der Nacht

El-khatib, Mark, Alexander, Elizabeth

This volume accompanies the first major survey of the work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a London-born painter and author with roots in Ghana. Around eighty paintings, drawings, and prints from private and public collections in Europe and the United States are assembled here, joining new, previously unseen works. Yiadom-Boakye’s main theme is the human being; the women and men, painted with oil or charcoal and pastels, appear to be portraits, but are actually fictions. They are always people of Color—whereby the painter highlights the fact of their absence in European art history. Along with her paintings, the catalogue also features the artist’s texts and poems. Accompanying essays by Andrea Schlieker, Isabella Maidment, and American poet Elizabeth Alexander explain Yiadom-Boakye's impressive body of work over the past twenty years.

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings of imagined Black figures, painted in a single day each, in a German catalogue. Portraits of people who never existed, and some of the most admired paintings of the past decade.

EAN

9783775750349

Publisher

Hatje Cantz

Published

5 August 2021

Pages

192

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