Bodies of Work--Contemporary Figurative Painting
ISBN-10: 0764349821
ISBN-13: 9780764349829
$49.99
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Schiffer
Published on
Jan 28, 2016
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8.75x1.50x11.25 Inches
Weight
3.61 Pounds
About the Book
Human forms can be intensely intimate or broadly universal. Here, figurative artists use the human form as a tool to express varied content and contemporary issues. These paintings depict our feelings and sentiments, our sense of belonging to a larger community in the contemporary world, while capturing the impulses behind the range of figuration presented by today's contemporary international artists. Portraitist Marlene Dumas presents figures in a gritty, unsentimental manner, evoking the essence of the human condition, while Kerry James Marshall paints the life of African-Americans in the twentieth-century, employing recent historical review to document the social challenges. British artist Jenny Saville paints the figure in massive scale, combined with an overt, never-ending interest in the pure rendering of human flesh. Hope Gangloff paints her figures as characters, intimate friends, and acquaintances, narrating a drama from their canvases. An important resource for those interested in contemporary figurative painting.