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New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting, Paperback / softback Book

New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting Paperback / softback

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Art today can be whatever one wants it to be: a rotting cadaver, a photograph of someone else's photograph, a banana...

In this post-modern age of post-truth, of social media and the selfie, when everyone has a high-resolution digital camera at their fingertips, one wonders what would possess a talented artist to sit for days, weeks, often months, to paint a portrait of a friend or a landscape of home.

Today, a group of 20 or so remarkable painters have revived a fascinating style of realistic painting, and in Israel of all places, where realistic art has never played any significant role.

Their brand of realism is not mundane photographic realism, but rather it is an intensified sort of realism, a kind of hyper-realism.

This book offers an initial explanation as to what these artists are doing, and how they are doing it.

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