Lookout 1

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Lookout 1

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

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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Image

Date created

1999

Creator

Tony de Lautour

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/429239

Related subjects

oil paint / oil paintings / New Zealand

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