Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Maidment, Isabella
2. Schlieker, Andrea
3. Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962-
4. Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977-
5. Tate Britain (Gallery), host institution
6. Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden), host institution
7. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), host institution
8. Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, host institution

Description

1. 187 pages : chiefly color illustrations, portraits; 28 cm

Summary

1. Fact and fiction fuse in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings: they appear to be portraits, yet the people she depicts are not real but invented. Created from a composite of found images and her own imagination, her characters seem to exist outside of a specific time and place: they feel at once familiar and mysterious. This ambiguity resonates again in the titles she gives to her artworks. The artist is also a writer of poetry and prose, and for her, the two forms of creativity complement each other: 'The things I can't paint, I write. The things I can't write, I paint.' Accompanying the first exhibition to survey her career in depth, this publication provides a comprehensive account of Yiadom-Boakye's practice over the past two decades. With essays by the poet Elizabeth Alexander and curators Andrea Schlieker and Isabella Maidment, alongside new writing by Yiadom-Boakye, this monograph reflects the dual aspects of the artist's practice as both a painter and a writer and provides an insight into her creative process. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born in 1977, is a British artist and writer. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy. In 2018, she was awarded the Carnegie Prize.

Alternative title

1. Fly in league with the night

Subject

1. Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977- > Exhibitions
2. Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977-
3. 2000-2099
4. Painting, British > 21st century > Exhibitions
5. Portrait painting, British > 21st century > Exhibitions
6. Black people in art
7. Painting, British
8. Portrait painting, British

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. Sc F 21-47

Note

1. "First published 2020 by order of the Tate Trustees by Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd, Millbank, London ... on the occasion of the exhibition Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night, Tate Britain, London, 18 November 2020-9 May 2021; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 12 June-5 September 2021; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K20), Düsseldorf, 16 October 2021-13 February 2022; Mudam Luxembourg--Musée d'Art, Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, 26 March-4 September 2022"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index.

Title

1. 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.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers Inc., 2020.

Copyright date

1. ©2020

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Maidment, Isabella, editor, contributor.
2. Schlieker, Andrea, editor, contributor.
3. Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- contributor.
4. Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977- Works. Selections.
5. Tate Britain (Gallery), host institution.
6. Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden), host institution.
7. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), host institution.
8. Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2020943173

ISBN

1. 1942884656 hardcover
2. 9781942884651 hardcover

Research call number

1. Sc F 21-47