Narrative and literality in contemporary painting
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2025.217647Keywords:
Painting, Contemporary Art, NarrativeAbstract
The article explores the overlap between pictorial models of narrative and literality in contemporary painting, taking three artists as an example: Kerry James Marshall, Luc Tuymans and Mamma Andersson. The work of the three, which began to gain prominence between the 1980s and 1990s, summons these two instances - and, often, their historical baggage - simultaneously, working them as distinct signs within the same framework.
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