| Description |
320 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm |
| Series |
Elephant books |
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Elephant books.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Jonas Burgert -- Kent Dorn -- Joyce Ho -- Sigrid Holmwood -- Josephine King -- Masakatsu Kondo -- Nicholas McLeod -- Hesam Rahmanian |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Life & The Meaning Of Life In The Labyrinth Of Images -- Chapter Introduction -- 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 -- pt. 2 Unstill Lives -- Chapter Introduction -- 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 -- pt. 3 New Pastoral & Other Imagined Realities -- Chapter Introduction -- Toshimitsu Baba -- Jules de Balincourt -- Amy Bennett -- David Brian Smith -- |
| 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 |
| Notes |
"An Elephant book" --Title page |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Figurative painting -- 21st century.
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Painting, Modern -- 21st century.
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| Author |
Valli, Marc.
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| ISBN |
9781780672830 (hardback) |
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