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Martin Herbert

Tal R

Martin Herbert

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English
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
09 September 2019
Art & design styles: from c 1960
Series: Contemporary Painters Series
This book assesses the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between representation and abstraction, of what the artist has termed 'Kolbojnik', a Hebrew term for leftovers.

Tal R's paintings are exceptionally idiosyncratic yet informed by an expansive view of the history of painting, with a diverse range of references including Fauvism, Symbolism and folk art. To the casual observer, his works depict amalgams of people, places and things. But deeper scrutiny reveals them as complex conceptual playgrounds where these seemingly simple categories are exploded and examined as 'construction' sites of both literal material (including collage, photography and sculpture) and meaning.

For all students and lovers of painting, Tal R's works, like those of Chris Ofili or Laura Owens, have cleared a pathway for painting to continue after modernism and post-modernism without apology, beyond the worn-out 'death of painting' mantra. Martin Herbert's fascinating text offers an authoritative account of the twists and turns that path has taken so far.
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Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 280mm,  Width: 240mm, 
ISBN:   9781848222311
ISBN 10:   1848222319
Series:   Contemporary Painters Series
Pages:   144
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Audience:   General/trade ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Martin Herbert is a writer and art critic and Associate Editor of Art Review. He has written numerous books, including Tell Them I Said No (2016).

Reviews for Tal R

'It is in many ways in keeping with the development of Tal R's pictorial language that Martin Herbert's very useful book - the first proper monograph on the artist - is only published now. Working for three decades on the ruins and pinnacles of the ever-contested medium of painting, Tal R has repeatedly undone and rebuilt his style. He is a magical artist who has played a leading role in contemporary painting.' -- Anders Kold * Louisiana Museum of Modern Art *


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