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A comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot
A comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot (b. 1963), whose contemporary work builds bridges to predecessors such as Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Goya, and Manet.
Van Imschoot's painting consciously opts for a clear, sometimes contradictory and ironic style. The directness of his decisive brushwork and his balanced yet audacious use of color is strikingly contemporary, while his work draws on historical themes from literature and art history. In this way, Van Imschoot engages in a continuous dialogue with the past, in which he, with a dose of cynicism, often targets phenomena or figures that find themselves on the fringes of (contemporary) society.
Bringing together more than 220 works by Van Imschoot with five accompanying texts, this book gives fresh insight into the painting practice of this Belgian master.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
About the Author
Philippe Van Cauteren is artistic director of S.M.A.K. (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Ghent, Belgium.
Selen Ansen is professor at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Hendrik Folkerts is curator of international contemporary art at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Dieter Roelstraete is curator of the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches.
Alain Tapie is a chief curator and the author of several books on the Northern Mannerists, symbolism and botany in 17th-century painting, and the Baroque and the Jesuits.
Book Information
ISBN 9780300266986
Author Philippe Van Cauteren
Format Hardback
Page Count 228
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
A comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot (b. 1963), whose contemporary work builds bridges to predecessors such as Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Goya, and Manet.
Van Imschoot's painting consciously opts for a clear, sometimes contradictory and ironic style. The directness of his decisive brushwork and his balanced yet audacious use of color is strikingly contemporary, while his work draws on historical themes from literature and art history. In this way, Van Imschoot engages in a continuous dialogue with the past, in which he, with a dose of cynicism, often targets phenomena or figures that find themselves on the fringes of (contemporary) society.
Bringing together more than 220 works by Van Imschoot with five accompanying texts, this book gives fresh insight into the painting practice of this Belgian master.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
About the Author
Philippe Van Cauteren is artistic director of S.M.A.K. (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Ghent, Belgium.
Selen Ansen is professor at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Hendrik Folkerts is curator of international contemporary art at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Dieter Roelstraete is curator of the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches.
Alain Tapie is a chief curator and the author of several books on the Northern Mannerists, symbolism and botany in 17th-century painting, and the Baroque and the Jesuits.
Book Information
ISBN 9780300266986
Author Philippe Van Cauteren
Format Hardback
Page Count 228
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
