Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave

In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of colour and others who have historically been victimized. From her evocative portraits, based on photographs of friends and family as well as figures culled from printed pornography, to her large-scale images highlighting charged relationships within groups, Dumas' work explores the contradictions behind the physical reality of the body, merging acute social commentary with personal experience and art-historical antecedent to create unsettling and ambiguous psychological statements.

Hardcover. English. D.A.P./Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 2008. ISBN: 1933751088. 288 pp. Good in laminated hardcover. Book No: 2505380