TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hyman,Timothy
TI  - The world new made: figurative painting in the twentieth century 
SN  - 9780500239452
AV  - ND196.F5 H96 2016
U1  - 709.04 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Figurative painting
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Painting, Modern
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-247) and index
N2  - Timothy Hyman argues that figuration never went away; abstraction was just one of the ways by which artists renewed pictorial language. This book is structured not as a general survey, but as an in-depth exploration of over 130 specific paintings, and accompanying artists' writings. Focusing on those painters who took a contrary path, he presents a case for these artists as a resistance of sorts. Starting with the oppressive stylistic imperative that set in as Cubism became a movement, he guides us through the Neue Sachlichkeit response to Expressionism, Intimism, 'outsiders' and the aftermath of Abstract Expressionism, towards a new kind of history painting. He shows how abstraction becomes a midwife to a new kind of figuration. A celebration of the richness of human-centred painting over the last century, Timothy Hyman's lavishly illustrated new book brings these often-marginalized artists centre stage. Together they offer a counter-argument to Western formalism, and a foundation for the figurative painters of the 21st century
ER  -