Het verleden van het heden schilderen: Stijn Peeters en de kunst van het hercomponeren = Peindre l'histoire du temps présent : Stijn Peeters et l'art de la recomposition = Painting the history of the present : Stijn Peeters and the art of recomposition

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Can the art of painting still help interpret current events, as it used to? Or is it competing in an unwinnable race with the far more nimble media and journalistic reporting? In his work, artist Stijn Peeters hearkens back to French history painting, magazine illustrations, and anonymous popular prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth century. He translates his predecessors' socially engaged approach into a visual language of his own to scrutinise the contemporary world of power and powerlessness. In this publication, he focuses on one central painting and the studies that culminated in it to show how his work came into being. French art historian Bertrand Tillier's essay delves into the painting's art-historical background to examine whether the art of painting still has a place in the modern age, and whether it might have one in the future"--Provided by publisher.