The World New Made : Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century Paperback / softback
by TIMOTHY HYMAN
Paperback / softback
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A celebration of the richness of figurative painting over the last 100 years and a passionate critique of the accepted history of art in the 20th century. Figurative painting is due a reappraisal. In this passionately argued volume the distinguished writer and artist Timothy Hyman cuts a new path through the tangle of twentieth-century art.
The World New Made explores the work of more than fifty individual painters, presenting a collective ‘Resistance’ who together offer a human-centred alternative to the dominance of the Abstract or the Conceptual in conventional narratives of modern art. Structured not as a survey but as in-depth studies of more than 130 specific artworks, this lavishly illustrated book brings these often marginalized artists centre-stage: not just Alice Neel and Balthus, Max Beckmann and Frida Kahlo, but also Marsden Hartley and Charlotte Salomon, Bhupen Khakhar and Jacob Lawrence.
A rich cast is brought to life, partly through their own writings.
As the author argues, ‘All across the world, isolated artists found new idioms for human-centred painting in the midst of modern life.’
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 158 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication Date:10/02/2022
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- ISBN:9780500296530
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 158 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication Date:10/02/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780500296530