Item Number: 135463 Title: Picturing People : The New State of Art Author: Mullins, Christopher Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780500239384 Description: New York: Thames and Hudson, 2015. 28cm., hardcover, 192pp., 200 illus. Summary: What drives artists to represent people as they do? This question, at the heart offigurative art, and how we represent ourselves as a society, is especially relevanttoday. Author Charlotte Mullins picks up the conversation at a time when the artworld is influenced by the proliferation of images of all kinds, across all mediums, aswell as a growing interest in figurative art. Profiles of nearly sixty artists—from Kara Walker and Grayson Perry to CindySherman and Kehinde Wiley—showcase significant works and are accompanied bythe artists’ commentary, illustrating the range of motivations, mediums, andtechniques driving one of the most potent genres of art today. The book is organizedinto five thematic sections that reflect artists’ motivations, which range from investigatingthe history of art itself to exploring interpersonal relationships. Mullins’s keen curatorial eye picks out informed, sometimes unexpected juxtapositions of artiststhat reveal new affinities and distinctions between them, making Picturing People animportant contribution to the study of figurative art. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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