The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century by Hyman, Timothy

The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

For thousands of years pictorial representations have engaged humankind, yet in the twentieth century, with the arrival...
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The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century by Hyman, Timothy

The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

$132.13

The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

$132.13
Author: Timothy Hyman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

For thousands of years pictorial representations have engaged humankind, yet in the twentieth century, with the arrival of abstraction and the accompanying liberation of painting from figuration and bourgeois tradition, figurative painting became fraught with difficulty. For some thirty years, from the early 1950s to the early 1980s, modern art and abstraction were almost synonymous, with figurative painters cast as "backward children," conservative throwbacks, and outdated survivors.

In The World New Made, critic Timothy Hyman argues that abstraction was just one of the means by which artists renewed pictorial language. Focusing on those painters who bucked tradition and opted for a new kind of figuration, Hyman presents them as a countermovement to the sometimes oppressive stylistic imperative that set in as Cubism became a movement. Around the world, artists such as Max Beckmann, Fernand L ger, Balthus, Paula Rego, Marc Chagall, Stanley Spencer, R. B. Kitaj, Philip Guston, Picasso, Matisse, Lucian Freud, and others found an idiom for human-centered painting. Together they offer a counterargument to Western formalism, but also a foundation for the figurative painters of the twenty-first century.



Author: Timothy Hyman
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.90lbs
Size: 10.55h x 7.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780500239452


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 94
Choice 05/01/2017

About the Author
Hyman, Timothy: - Timothy Hyman is an art critic and historian, as well as a painter. His articles have appeared in the London Magazine and TLS.

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