Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : fly in league with the night /

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 f...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Maidment, Isabella (Editor, Contributor), Schlieker, Andrea (Editor, Contributor), Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- (Contributor), Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers Inc., 2020.
Subjects:	Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, > 1977- > Exhibitions. Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, > 1977- Painting, British > 21st century > Exhibitions. Portrait painting, British > 21st century > Exhibitions. Painting, British. Blacks in art. Exhibition catalogs. Photobooks.

Table of Contents:

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.