your dumas grave marlene

books:

Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave
Cornelia Butler, Richard Shiff, ...

D.A.P./Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008

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 color and others who have historically been victimized. From her evocative portraits, based on photographs of friends and family as well as figures ...