Teun hocks biography books

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          The catalogue for a Dutch exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Teun Hocks.

        1. The catalogue for a Dutch exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Teun Hocks.
        2. Teun Hocks - Performing as the 'everyman' in his photographs, Hocks invents scenes that are confrontations with failure, puzzlement and wonder.
        3. Follow Teun Hocks and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Teun Hocks Author Page.
        4. Teun Hocks lives in Breukelen, the Netherlands, and teaches at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.
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          6. Teun Hocks

          Teun Hocks

          Published by Aperture.
          Essay by Janet Koplos.

          Though Dutch artist Teun Hocks--performer, photographer, painter--is widely known and shown around the world, this will be his first English-language book.

          In it, Hocks plays his signature role, which Janet Koplos describes as "an innocent Everyman in an always strange and often funny world", in scenes that range from burlesque to tragicomic. His lonely Buster Keaton-like persona perseveres through odd and unforgiving environments, struggling to find stable ground in an unstable, even absurd, universe.

          Life's complications and challenges take the form of impossible Rube Goldbergian contraptions fraught with psychological implications. Each engaging image captures one moment of an implied narrative, triggering questions about how the protagonist ever got himself into such a fix and what in the world will happen next.

          Hocks begins by sketching out various one-man narratives, and then poses himself in a carefully p