The world new made : figurative painting in the twentieth century /
Timothy Hyman argues that figuration never went away. Abstraction was just one of the ways by which artists renewed pictorial language. This book is structured not as a general survey, but as an in-depth exploration of over 130 specific paintings, and accompanying artists' writings. Focusing on...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Thames & Hudson,
[2016]
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| Summary: | Timothy Hyman argues that figuration never went away. Abstraction was just one of the ways by which artists renewed pictorial language. This book is structured not as a general survey, but as an in-depth exploration of over 130 specific paintings, and accompanying artists' writings. Focusing on those painters who took a contrary path, he presents a case for these artists as a resistance of sorts. Starting with the oppressive stylistic imperative that set in as Cubism became a movement, he guides us through the Neue Sachlichkeit response to expressionism, intimism, 'outsiders' and the aftermath of abstract expressionism, towards a new kind of history painting. He shows how abstraction becomes a midwife to a new kind of figuration. A celebration of the richness of human-centred painting over the last century, Timothy Hyman's lavishly illustrated new book brings these often-marginalized artists centre stage. Together they offer a counter-argument to western formalism, and a foundation for the figurative painters of the 21st century. |
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| Physical Description: | 256 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780500239452 0500239452 |