The Painting of Modern Life: 1960s to Now

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Andy Warhols silk screens Gerhard Richters blurred images Vija Celmins hyperrealism: some of the most influential developments in the history of contemporary art hinge on the use of photographs as source material. Beginning in the early 60s with seminal works by the aforementioned artists The Painting of Modern Life charts the 45-year evolution of the translation of photographic images to paint--revealing an extraordinary breadth of stylistic and thematic diversity. This volume features 22 painters whose sources range from snapshots to commercial media among them Richard Artschwager Robert Bechtle Celmins Peter Doig Marlene Dumas Thomas Eggerer Judith Eisler Franz Gertsch Richard Hamilton Eberhard Havekost David Hockney Johannes Kahrs Johanna Kandl Martin Kippenberger Liu Xiaodong Malcolm Morley Elizabeth Peyton Michelangelo Pistoletto Richter Wilhelm Sasnal Luc Tuymans and Warhol. Essays by curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev writer and critic Martin