Realism in 20th century painting / Brendan Prendeville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prendeville, Brendan.

Series:

World of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism in art.

Painting, Modern--20th century.

Painting, Modern.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21cm.

Other Title:

Realism in twentieth century painting

Place of Publication:

New York : Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Summary:

Realist painting has had a persistent and powerful presence in 20th-century art. This book -- the first comprehensive survey of the subject -- demonstrates realism's vibrant, diverse and restlessly changing place in American and European painting, from Eakins, Bellows and Homer through Vuillard, Bonnard, Schiele, Morandi, Hopper and Giacometti to Balthus, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. The author provides the historical, artistic and critical contexts in which painting has taken a realist turn and argues that the western tradition of pictorial realism has in fact been renewed and modified through the diverse influences of modernism, political conflict and new visual technologies.

Contents:

Introduction: Realism and its Meanings 6

Chapter 1 The Realism of Modernism: From the Turn of the Century to the First World War 13

Chapter 2 Between Wars: Realism, Modernity and Politics 54

Chapter 3 From War to Cold War 108

Chapter 4 New Realities 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-217) and index.

ISBN:

0500203369

OCLC:

45279590