Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - Fly in League With the Night

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Isabella Maidment (editor), Andrea Schlieker (editor), Elizabeth Alexander (author), Tate Britain (Gallery) (host institution), Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden) (host institution), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (host institution), Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean (host institution)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A groundbreaking and essential survey of the art of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, offering an in-depth discussion of the development of the artist and positioning her work within a wider history of portraiture.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night celebrates the work of one of the most significant and acclaimed figurative painters of her generation. Fact and fiction fuse in 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 or place: they feel at once familiar yet mysterious. This ambiguity resonates again in the enigmatic 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, and the things I can't write, I paint.'

This perceptive and engaging publication provides a comprehensive account of Yiadom-Boakye's practice over the past two decades. With contributions by the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander and curators Andrea Schlieker and Isabella Maidment, alongside new writing by Yiadom-Boakye, Fly In League With The Night reflects the dual aspects of the artist's career as both a painter and a writer and offers an intimate insight into her creative process.

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Tate Publishing

Tate Publishing is one of the world's leading publishers on the visual arts. We aim to bring the best new writing on art and the highest quality reproductions to the widest possible range of readers.

Book information

ISBN:	9781849767040
Publisher:	Tate Publishing
Imprint:	Tate Publishing
Pub date:	01 Oct 2020
DEWEY:	759.2
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	192
Weight:	1018g
Height:	149mm
Width:	220mm
Spine width:	28mm