A brush with the real : figurative painting today /

By:

Valli, Marc [author.]

Contributor(s):

Dessanay, Margherita [author.]

Series: Elephant book (Series : London, England)Publisher: London, United Kingdom : Laurence King Publishing, 2014Copyright date: 2014Description: 320 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:

9781780672830
1780672837

Subject(s):

Contents:

Part 1. Life & the meaning of life in the labyrinth of images -- Eduardo Berliner ; Anna Bjerger ; Guillaume Bresson ; Andy Denzler ; Jeremy Geddes ; Luka Kurashvili ; Jerome Lagarrigue ; Ulrich Lamsfuss ; Marcin Maciejowski ; Harding Meyer ; Justin Mortimer ; Muntean and Rosenblum ; Benjamin Rubloff ; Wilhelm Sasnal ; Li Songsong ; Wayne Toepp ; Jonathan Wateridge ; James White ; Uwe Wittwer -- Part 2. Unstill lives -- Ayman Baalbaki ; Francois Bard ; Kevin Cosgrove ; Cynthia Daignault ; Tim Eitel ; Zhang Enli ; Maya Gold ; Oda Jaune ; Chantal Joffe ; Thoralf Knobloch ; Ronald Ophuis ; Jina Park ; Till Rabus ; Alessandro Raho ; Serban Savu ; Lynette Yiadom-Boakye ; Liu Xiadong ; Caroline Walker ; Dan Witz -- Part 3. New pastoral & other imagined realities -- Toshimitsu Baba ; Jules de Balincourt ; Amy Bennett ; David Brian Smith ; Jonas Burgert ; Kent Dorn ; Joyce Ho ; Sigrid Holmwood ; Josephine King ; Masakatsu Kondo ; Nicholas McLeod ; Hesam Rahmanian ; Simon Willems.

Summary: This book presents a survey of key contemporary artists who have each embraced painting and are working within a realist tradition. Through individual interviews the book peers into the life and work of each of these artists, discussing their methods, motives and sources, from art history to the internet and the language of film.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	ND 196 VAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0010428
Book Limited Loan	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	ND 196 VAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Issued	06/05/2024	0010323

Includes bibliographical references.

This book presents a survey of key contemporary artists who have each embraced painting and are working within a realist tradition. Through individual interviews the book peers into the life and work of each of these artists, discussing their methods, motives and sources, from art history to the internet and the language of film.

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