{"product_id":"painting-people-figure-painting-today-9781933045382","title":"Painting People: Figure Painting Today","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter 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 paints unique ability to distill a lifetime of events rather than photographys 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279722143797,"sku":"ByrdShop_1933045388","price":161.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781933045382_69c204ca-3a5e-4fe8-ab7f-5179b99deb1d.jpg?v=1780607530","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/painting-people-figure-painting-today-9781933045382","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}