The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847843750 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Figure is an ambitious and overdue tome that fills a void: if you haven’t noticed, contemporary representation is coming on strong. “The Figure, has the look of a high-end coffee table decoration, but don’t judge this book just by its Martha Mayer Erlebacher cover. Inside, you will find it crammed not only with striking images but also with essays by critics, artists, and other thinkers that air out thematically related historical, philosophical, theoretical, and te
in St. U. Louis and the NY Studio School, McCann has taught at the NY Academy of Art, Pratt Institute, Syracuse U., Boston U., Stockton and Montclair in NJ, UNH, and in Rome, Italy at RISD, Trinity and Saint Marys colleges, U. of Loyola-Chicago, John Cabot U., and the International School in Umbria. . Margaret McCann, editor and essayist, is a painter who lived in Rome for 8 years, exhibited at Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura in Milan, and wrot
A great resource for anyone interested in figurative art Bob Clyatt A great resource for anyone interested in figurative art, especially for those creating it. Much of it reads like art history, yet for once it is art history written by people who actually paint and sculpt -- this gives it real authority in my view. Dense reading -- you often have to unpack phrase-by-phrase but you are always rewarded for it, unlike much of the dense but largely . stevenc said …' contains a large number of good reproductions of contemporary painting. 'The Figure:…' contains a large number of good reproductions of contemporary painting, drawing and sculpture which was pretty much what I had hoped for. There is also a number of what I expect will be interesting essays, some by artists with whom I am familiar and consider to be of high quality. (I haven't had time to read much of the book yet.) Of course the book is narro. The art presented in the book is a wonderful representation of the many streams of practice and the It's impossible to overstate the value of this book. It's focus is on the reemergence of figurative art and the different forms and directions it is taking. As such, it's something of a snapshot of what's going on now and the directions in which figurative art may be headed. The point of departure for the book is the New York Academy of Art, a distinctive institution which arose
THE FIGURE features outstanding examples of contemporary figurative art by leading and established artists -- Jenny Saville, Eric Fischl, Will Cotton, Jerome Witkin, Hilary Harkness, Mark Greenwold, Eric White, Margaret Bowland and others -- alongside emerging talents. Underscoring the art of the figure's enduring appeal and the pedagogy of the New York Academy of Art, THE FIGURE is essential to anyone interested in both tradition and progress in figure-based art, from students to professionals and collectors.. The evolution of techniques -- from classical cast drawing, perspective, and the camera obscura to the use of photography, Photoshop, and 3D-modeling -- and changing cultural conditions from antiquity to cyberspace are examined, and the use of old and new techniques in contemporar