Marlene Dumas – Wet Dreams. Watercolors | artist book (front cover) | © ambulantdesign Gabriele Götz

Wet Dreams – Watercolors

Marlene Dumas

medium

book

info

Texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Marlene Dumas; edited by Dr. Thomas Knubben, Tilman Osterwold

ISBN

978-3-7757-1343-6

city

Ostfildern-Ruit

commissioner

Städtische Galerie Ravensburg

format

24,3 x 17,3 cm

publisher

Hatje Cantz

technical details

Hardcover, offset, 128 pages, 69 ill. in full-colour

year

2003

design notes

A collection of Dumas’ nearly abstract watercolour renderings of human figure compiled together in one book.

Wet Dreams features a broad selection of Dumas’ loaded and expressive watercolors, expanding on the primary topics found throughout her work: the clichè picture of the female, the relations between the sexes, role playing, sexuality and pornography, guilt and violence, birth and death. Specially featured here are a number of collaborative works which the artist created with her daughter and with the painter Bert Boogaard.