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This item is an image. It was created by Tony de Lautour on or around the date 01 January, 1999.
This is the best description of this item that we could find:This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). Tony de Lautour’s deftly repainted found paintings depend on a subtle fusion of respect and desecration. On one level they are kin to the posters or waiting-room magazines that we feel compelled to deface with spectacles, beards or buck teeth. They are also part of a modernist tradition of sophisticated art vandalism initiated by Marcel Duchamp’s moustachioed Mona Lisa. Today, complex defacement of past art s...
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