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Radical figures : painting in the new millennium / edited by Lydia Yee.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London, England : Whitechapel Gallery, 2020Description: 151 pages, [17-89] pages of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780854882830
Subject(s):
Contents:
Wonders and anxieties / Iwona Blazwick -- Radical figures : painting in the new millennium / Lydia Yee -- What does it mean to inhabit body in the twenty-first century? / Daniel Culpan -- Michael Armitage -- Cecily Brown -- Nicole Eisenman -- Sanya Kantarovsky -- Tala Madani -- Ryan Mosley -- Christina Quarles -- Daniel Richter -- Dana Schutz -- Tschabalala Self -- Michael Armitage in conversation with Lydia Yee -- Cecily Brown in conversation with Jason Rosenfeld -- Nicole Eisenman in conversation with Lynne Tillman -- Sanya Kantarovsky in conversation with Allison Katz -- Tala Madani in conversation with Lydia Yee -- Ryan Mosley in conversation with Cameron Foote -- Christina Quarles in conversation with Summer Bowie -- Daniel Richter in conversation with Lydia Yee -- The truth of the matter / Dana Schutz -- Tschabalala Self in conversation with Lydia Yee.
Summary: This timely publication, accompanying a brand new survey exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, presents key works by some of the most exciting practitioners in current figurative painting. After a long period dominated by abstraction and conceptual approaches, painting saw a revival of figuration in the 1990s by artists whose work updated portraiture and history painting but remained rooted in the conventions of realism. However a new generation, coming to prominence in the new millennium, are distinguished by a radically different approach to the figure, in which bodies are fragmented, morphed, merged and remade but never completely cohesive. 'Radical Figures' highlights the renewed interest in radical modes of figuration during the past two decades, and considers the vast range of imagery, subjects and stories that have informed this transition: from the re-evaluation of early pioneers such as James Ensor and Max Beckman, and postwar painters such as Maria Lassnig and Philip Guston; to raunchy comics; to the ubiquity of photography on social media. Fully illustrated in colour, this innovative appraisal will explore the breadth and range of painterly techniques used, such as loose gestural brushwork suggesting polymorphous forms and gender fluid bodies, and thick impasto evoking flesh, matter and objecthood. Including newly commissioned texts on and by each artist, this sumptuous catalogue will showcase the best in figurative painting today.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Red 759.07 YEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10490

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 6 February - 10 May 2020.

Includes bibliographic references.

Wonders and anxieties / Iwona Blazwick -- Radical figures : painting in the new millennium / Lydia Yee -- What does it mean to inhabit body in the twenty-first century? / Daniel Culpan -- Michael Armitage -- Cecily Brown -- Nicole Eisenman -- Sanya Kantarovsky -- Tala Madani -- Ryan Mosley -- Christina Quarles -- Daniel Richter -- Dana Schutz -- Tschabalala Self -- Michael Armitage in conversation with Lydia Yee -- Cecily Brown in conversation with Jason Rosenfeld -- Nicole Eisenman in conversation with Lynne Tillman -- Sanya Kantarovsky in conversation with Allison Katz -- Tala Madani in conversation with Lydia Yee -- Ryan Mosley in conversation with Cameron Foote -- Christina Quarles in conversation with Summer Bowie -- Daniel Richter in conversation with Lydia Yee -- The truth of the matter / Dana Schutz -- Tschabalala Self in conversation with Lydia Yee.

This timely publication, accompanying a brand new survey exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, presents key works by some of the most exciting practitioners in current figurative painting. After a long period dominated by abstraction and conceptual approaches, painting saw a revival of figuration in the 1990s by artists whose work updated portraiture and history painting but remained rooted in the conventions of realism. However a new generation, coming to prominence in the new millennium, are distinguished by a radically different approach to the figure, in which bodies are fragmented, morphed, merged and remade but never completely cohesive. 'Radical Figures' highlights the renewed interest in radical modes of figuration during the past two decades, and considers the vast range of imagery, subjects and stories that have informed this transition: from the re-evaluation of early pioneers such as James Ensor and Max Beckman, and postwar painters such as Maria Lassnig and Philip Guston; to raunchy comics; to the ubiquity of photography on social media. Fully illustrated in colour, this innovative appraisal will explore the breadth and range of painterly techniques used, such as loose gestural brushwork suggesting polymorphous forms and gender fluid bodies, and thick impasto evoking flesh, matter and objecthood. Including newly commissioned texts on and by each artist, this sumptuous catalogue will showcase the best in figurative painting today.