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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Fly in league with the night, edited by Isabella Maidment and Andrea Schlieker, with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Fly in league with the night, edited by Isabella Maidment and Andrea Schlieker, with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Nature of contents

catalogsbibliography

Oclc number

315059

Responsibility statement

edited by Isabella Maidment and Andrea Schlieker, with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Sub title

Fly in league with the night

Summary

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977) is a British artist and writer known for her portraits of fictitious people. Her paintings often allude to historic European portraiture - notably Thomas Gainsborough, Francisco de Goya, John Singer Sargent and Edouard Manet - yet in subject matter and technique her approach is contemporary. Through her focus on the depiction of imagined black characters, Yiadom-Boakye's paintings raise questions about identity and representation.This volume will accompany the first major survey of Yiadom-Boakye's work. The exhibition will bring together around eighty paintings, drawings and prints from private and public collections across Europe and the United States and will also feature new works that have never been shown before. Thematic essays will offer in-depth discussion of the development of the artist's practice since her graduation from the Royal Academy of Art, London, in 2003, and her work will be presented alongside her own writing and poetry. Yiadom-Boakye was awarded the Carnegie Prize in 2018 and was the 2012 recipient of the Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Prize. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2013

Table Of Contents

Quiet fires: the paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye / Andrea Schlieker -- The power of invention / Isabella Maidment -- Inside the order is always something wild / Elizabeth Alexander -- Five extracts from a detective novel entitled 'An Officer Of The Law' and some intermittent notes on criminality / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Biography and Bibliography -- List of works

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Fly in league with the night

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