Description
| Product ID: | 9780500296530 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The World New Made |
| Subtitle: | Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century |
| Authors: | Author: Timothy Hyman |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Paintings and painting, Painting & paintings |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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.’ |
| Imprint Name: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-10 |
