Painting people : figure painting today / Charlotte Mullins.

After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has finally swung back. A new generation of artists-, as well as some who never abandoned figu...

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Main Author: Mullins, Charlotte.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: ©2006
Edition:First paperback edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The figure unravelled
  • Chuck Close
  • Yi Chen
  • Mika Kato
  • Philip Akkerman
  • Margherita Manzelli
  • Jenny Saville
  • Cecily Brown
  • Lucian Freud
  • Lisa Yuskavage
  • Chantal Joffe
  • Nicola Tyson
  • Marlene Dumas
  • Yan Pei-Ming
  • Mari Sunna
  • Barnaby Furnas
  • Rezi Van Lankveld
  • 2. The urban condition
  • Thomas Eggerer
  • Jules de Balincourt
  • Geraint Evans
  • Martin Maloney
  • James Rielly
  • Mathew Cerletty
  • Eric Fischl
  • Dawn Mellor
  • Elizabeth Peyton
  • Muntean and Rosenblum
  • Jun Hasegawa
  • Djamel Tatah
  • 3. Other worlds
  • Rui Matsunaga
  • Henning Kles
  • Peter Doig
  • Andrew Guenther
  • Daniel Richter
  • Hernan Bas
  • Kaye Donachie
  • Mamma Andersson
  • Milena Dragicevic
  • Inka Essenhigh
  • Aya Takano
  • Raqib Shaw
  • Wangechi Mutu
  • Chris Ofili
  • 4. Folk tales
  • Christoph Ruckhäberle
  • Jocelyn Hobbie
  • Brian Calvin
  • Ridley Howard
  • Holly Coulis
  • Dana Schutz
  • George Condo
  • Amy Cutler
  • Chéri Samba
  • Laylah Ali
  • Marcel Dzama
  • Neo Rauch
  • Norbert Bisky
  • Jörg Lozek
  • 5. The past deconstructed
  • Luc Tuymans
  • Wilhelm Sasnal
  • Eberhard Havekost
  • Neal Tait
  • Michaël Borremans
  • Zhang Xiaogang
  • Anna Bjerger
  • Glenn Brown
  • Mathew Weir
  • John Currin
  • Richard Wathen
  • Bénédicte Peyrat
  • Rosson Crow
  • Artists' biographies
  • Select bibliography
  • List of illustrations
  • Index.