Luc Tuymans : Glasses / authors, Pavel Büchler, Ken Pratt, Eric Rinckhout.

By:

Tuymans, Luc, 1958-

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Kontich : BAI Publishers, 2016.Description: 102 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 30 cmISBN:

9789085867258

Other title:

Glasses

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.9493 TUY

Contents:

Frames of reference / Pavel Büchler -- Glasses seen as a second skin, shield and symbol / Eric Rinckhout -- Looking at glasses / Ken Pratt.

Summary: In Glasses, Luc Tuymans and the MAS bring together an exquisite selection of more than twenty works. They include portraits, both of \'nameless people\' and of historical figures, and other works, and they have never been seen together before. The selection includes iconic works from Tuymans\' oeuvre, whose major themes include Nazism, colonialism and nationalism. In the series Die Zeit, the SS man Heydrich hides his face behind dark glasses, the young Baudouin steps off a plane in Léopoldville concealed by his sunglasses, the laughing American family man Milteer, with eyes wide open behind his glasses, is an extremist and racist, and the face of Flemish author Ernest Claes becomes a kind of blank mask with glasses. Exhibition: MAS, Antwerp, Belgium (13.05-18.09.2016).

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Title notes ( 5 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	759.9493 TUY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100630210

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In Glasses, Luc Tuymans and the MAS bring together an exquisite selection of more than twenty works. They include portraits, both of nameless people and of historical figures, and other works, and they have never been seen together before. The selection includes iconic works from Tuymans oeuvre, whose major themes include Nazism, colonialism and nationalism. In the series Die Zeit, the SS man Heydrich hides his face behind dark glasses, the young Baudouin steps off a plane in Léopoldville concealed by his sunglasses, the laughing American family man Milteer, with eyes wide open behind his glasses, is an extremist and racist, and the face of Flemish author Ernest Claes becomes a kind of blank mask with glasses. Exhibition: MAS, Antwerp, Belgium (13.05-18.09.2016).

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Luc Tuymans. Glasses, at MAS/Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, from 13 May to 18 September 2016 and at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 4 October 2016 to 26 March 2017

Includes bibliographical references.

Frames of reference / Pavel Büchler -- Glasses seen as a second skin, shield and symbol / Eric Rinckhout -- Looking at glasses / Ken Pratt.

In Glasses, Luc Tuymans and the MAS bring together an exquisite selection of more than twenty works. They include portraits, both of \'nameless people\' and of historical figures, and other works, and they have never been seen together before. The selection includes iconic works from Tuymans\' oeuvre, whose major themes include Nazism, colonialism and nationalism. In the series Die Zeit, the SS man Heydrich hides his face behind dark glasses, the young Baudouin steps off a plane in Léopoldville concealed by his sunglasses, the laughing American family man Milteer, with eyes wide open behind his glasses, is an extremist and racist, and the face of Flemish author Ernest Claes becomes a kind of blank mask with glasses. Exhibition: MAS, Antwerp, Belgium (13.05-18.09.2016).