Charlotte Mullins

Picturing People

The New State of the Art

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Figurative art is currently riding high. Contemporary works depicting the human form grace the walls of public institutions and commercial galleries alike. This book explores the reasons behind this resurgence and considers what the figure means to the artists who depict it in their practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 283mm x 238mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1274g
• ISBN-13: 9780500239384
• ISBN-10: 050023938X
• Artikelnr.: 42409460

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Mullins is an art critic, writer and broadcaster. She has worked as the arts editor of the Independent on Sunday, the editor of Art Review, the V&A Magazine and Art Quarterly, and has written over ten books, two of which are art books for children, which were published under the pen name Charlie Ayres.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction . 1. People as Picture: Depicting the human form in paint . 2.
Image Hunters: the role of the ever-increasing archive of photography and
media reproductions . 3. Picturing History: drawing on art history for
inspiration/direction . 4. Parallel Worlds: exploring parallel worlds,
where the figure is imaginatively transported to various possible futures .
5. Observer / Observed: the observed figure, both the artist's own and that
of others.