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In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last threedecades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focusedon the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair andconfusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudestoward women, children, people of color and others who havehistorically been victimized. From her evocative portraits, basedon photographs of friends and family as well as figures culled fromprinted pornography, to her large-scale images highlighting chargedrelationships within groups, Dumas' work explores thecontradictions behind the physical reality of the body, mergingacute social commentary with personal experience and art-historicalantecedent to create unsettling and ambiguous psychologicalstatements.

<p>In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three
decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused
on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and
confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes
toward women, children, people of color and others who have
historically been victimized. From her evocative portraits, based
on photographs of friends and family as well as figures culled from
printed pornography, to her large-scale images highlighting charged
relationships within groups, Dumas' work explores the
contradictions behind the physical reality of the body, merging
acute social commentary with personal experience and art-historical
antecedent to create unsettling and ambiguous psychological
statements.<br />
    Accompanying Dumas' first major mid-career
survey in the U.S., with stops in three major American cities, (one
yet to be announced) this substantial, fully-illustrated
publication features a newly commissioned essay by renowned scholar
Richard Shiff, placing the artist's work in relation to both
American figurative painting since the 1980s and Abstract
Expressionism. The book also includes curator Cornelia H. Butler's
examination of Dumas' photographic sources and shorter texts by
Lisa Gabrielle Mark and Matthew Monahan. Writings by the artist, as
well as an extensive illustrated exhibition history and
bibliography, complete this comprehensive examination of the work
of one of the most thought-provoking artists working today.<br />
Born in Capetown, South Africa, in 1953, Marlene Dumas has lived in
Amsterdam since 1976. Over the last three decades she has had
numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe and the U.S., including
the Tate Gallery, London; the Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. In 1995 she
represented The Netherlands at the 46th Venice Biennale.</p>

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