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| Painting People: Figure Painting Today | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lucian Freud, John Currin, Rachel Whiteread
Publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
Buy New: $54.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 362347
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 9.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1933045388
Dewey Decimal Number: 708
EAN: 9781933045382
ASIN: 1933045388
Publication Date: September 15, 2006
Release Date: September 15, 2006
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Product Description
After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has finally swung back. A new generation of artists--as well as some who never abandoned figurative painting in the first place--is relishing the solitary, slow, subtle set of processes involved in not just painting, but painting people. They are choosing paint's unique ability to distill a lifetime of events rather than photography's glimpse of a frozen moment. Painting People, edited by the prominent London art historian and critic Charlotte Mullins, unites and contrasts the work of a key group of artists from around the world, and investigates their richly varied accomplishments in lucid text with detailed commentaries, accompanied by more than 150 reproductions. The list of contributing artists is stellar, ranging from photo-based painters like Luc Tuymans, Peter Doig and Marlene Dumas to Pop artists like Sigmar Polke and Alex Katz, photorealists like Chuck Close and Gerhard Richter, Neoexpressionists like Cecily Brown, and comics-inspired painters like Yoshitomo Nara, Inka Essenhigh and Takashi Murakami. There are erotic grotesques from John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage, meditations on the muse by Elizabeth Peyton and Lucian Freud, "Repro-realistic" work from Neo Rauch and of course self-portraits by Philip Akkerman and Marcel Dzama, among others.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Great Diversity May 1, 2008
Wonderful diversity of portraits. Discovered many new artists I wasn't aware of and want to learn more about. One of the best art books I've purchased.
 Painting People April 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book for professors who teach figure drawing and figure painting. Great resource of contemporary artists who work in figurative portraiture.
 Nothing daring.... February 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am always interested in artists whose work includes the human figure. I bought this book without seeing the contents, but figured that with a John Currin on the cover it had to be good. It did include a good range of artists, but I was disappointed to see some of the images. It seemed like the author selected PG versions of the paintings or at least the more PG work by many of the artists.
Very Current December 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very current (mostly) and well presented.
Favorites; Eric Fischl, Lucian Freud, Chuck Close, John Currin,Barnaby Furnas
Steven Gefrom
Remember you can't JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. November 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Geez, a couple of the other reviewers are complaining the cover of this art book is misleading. Didn't somebody teach them in grade school you cannot judge a book by its cover?
John Currin is only one of at least a dozen artists featured in this book. So there is a lot of different kinds of painting featured here, so if you only like classical portriature or very realistic painting, you are in the wrong place! This is for lovers of contemporary art, including some of the current greats, ie Cecily Brown, Yan Pei-Ming, etcetera and so on.
While not exactly an exhaustive or investigative feature on contemporary figurative painting, it does hit up a lot of the big names right now and the reproductions are very nice. Each artists gets two or three pages. I would have prefered more. But this modestly sized book is very pretty and fun to flip through and make comparisions.
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