The figure : painting, drawing, and sculpture : contemporary perspectives / edited by Margaret McCann ; New York Academy of Art.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCann, Margaret (Artist), editor.

New York Academy of Art, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human figure in art.

Human figure in art--History.

History.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2014.

Contents:

The once and future sculpted figure / Judy Fox

A brief history of traditional painting pedagogy / Thomas Germano

A brief history of traditional painting techniques: fresco, tempera, and oil painting / Lisa Bartolozzi

Outsourcing technique: mimesis, method, and metaphor in figure sculpture / Robert Simon

Toward an allegorization of method / Vincent Desiderio

The invention of clumsiness: photography and modernism / Alexi Worth

Refiguring history painting: representation meets modern techniques / Margaret McCann

Freud and the eternal feminine in modernist painting / Donald Kuspit

Representational art and kitsch / Kurt Kauper

Twentieth-century figurative sculpture / Robert Taplin

Representing avant-garde representation: from painterly figuration to matter-of-fact relism 1950-70 / Irving Sandler

Monsters rule: the grotesque in contemporary painting and sculpture / David Ebony

Looking back at the male gaze / Julie Heffernan

The echo in the picture: the social potential of representational painting / Laurie Hogin

Scale, materials, and self-perception in contemporary figurative sculpture / Mark Mennin

Painting and digital technology: from film to Photoshop / Jean-Pierre Roy

Pictorial space enters virtual reality: from perspective to 3-D modeling / John Jacobsmeyer

Perspective, representation, and democracy / Nicola Verlato.

Notes:

"In association with The New York Academy of Art"--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235) and index.

ISBN:

0847843750

9780847843756

OCLC:

891221223