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Ben Tankard’s kids posing with some of his book cover paintings.<\/p><\/div>\n

It always cheers me when Ben Tankard<\/span><\/a> posts something new on Instagram. The Australian painter works in several modes, one being his surreal landscapes where ordinary people confront things they can\u2019t quite comprehend\u2014if we’re honest with ourselves, we are<\/em> those people, all the time, aren\u2019t we?\u2014and in another series he does Monopoly board images that have been slightly modified, as well as classic Penguin paperback covers. It\u2019s all done with an ebullient wit. My favorites are his simple, uniformly produced fractures of Penguin covers, where everything has been slightly scrambled, as if the books are slowly becoming illegible as a result of macular degeneration. For me, the fragmentation of vision is cultural and his Pop version of those paperbacks speaks to our fragmented literacy in an age of inane social media telegraphy and knee-jerk rants. It\u2019s refreshing to see a painter posing his two youngsters in front of images he\u2019s completed of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s and Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s work. Just putting those books side by side feels tolerant, appreciative, and encouraging. Just painting the covers of great books, period, is a nice, humble way to class up the joint.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It always cheers me when Ben Tankard posts something new on Instagram. The Australian painter works in several modes, one being his surreal landscapes where ordinary people confront things they can\u2019t quite comprehend\u2014if we’re honest with ourselves, we are those people, all the time, aren\u2019t we?\u2014and in another series he does Monopoly board images that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nFractured literacy - represent<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=8707\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fractured literacy - represent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It always cheers me when Ben Tankard posts something new on Instagram. 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