Research Catalog

Title

The world new made : figurative painting in the twentieth century / Timothy Hyman.

Author

Hyman, Timothy

Publication

• New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2016.
• ©2016

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Description

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

Timothy Hyman argues that figuration never went away; abstraction was just one of the ways by which artists renewed pictorial language. This book is structured not as a general survey, but as an in-depth exploration of over 130 specific paintings, and accompanying artists' writings. Focusing on those painters who took a contrary path, he presents a case for these artists as a resistance of sorts. Starting with the oppressive stylistic imperative that set in as Cubism became a movement, he guides us through the Neue Sachlichkeit response to Expressionism, Intimism, 'outsiders' and the aftermath of Abstract Expressionism, towards a new kind of history painting. He shows how abstraction becomes a midwife to a new kind of figuration. A celebration of the richness of human-centred painting over the last century, Timothy Hyman's lavishly illustrated new book brings these often-marginalized artists centre stage. Together they offer a counter-argument to Western formalism, and a foundation for the figurative painters of the 21st century.

Subjects

• Painting, Modern
• Figurative painting
• Painting, Modern > 20th century
• 1900-1999
• Figurative painting > 20th century
• ART / Criticism & Theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-247) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Painting and experience in the twentieth century. Modernism as liberty ; Peopling the void : episodes from an alternative history ; 1. After Cubism : reinventing the language of representation. Chagall's Half past three (The poet) (1911) ; Matisse's View of Notre Dame (1914) ; Léger, Rousseau and the 'return to "great subjects'" (1918-54) ; Classicism after Futurism : Carrà and Sironi (1921-22) ; Towards the Chagall of Dead souls (1920-25) ; Muralism part 1: Rivera's return to Mexico (1921-24) ; Muralism part 2: Benode Behari Mukherjee's The lives of the medieval Indian saints (1946-47) ; Marsden Hartley's 'Late courage' (1938-40) ; Francis Bacon's Three studies for a crucifixion (1962) ; Paula Rego: The barn (1994) -- 2. After Expressionism : 'the new thingness'. Not the how but the what : Otto Dix and the Neue Sachlichkeit generation (1917-32) ; 'A new sort of realism' : the war and its aftermath in English painting : Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, William Roberts, Edward Burra (1914-37) ; Early Balthus : a puppet master (1933-56) ; Edward Hopper's Nighthawks (1942) ; The libertarian line : Alice Neel and the modern portrait (1933-80) ; Lucian Freud's Interior at Paddington (1951) -- 3. First-person painting. Paula Modersohn-Becker : not 'that's me' but 'this is' (1900-7) ; Kirchner's 'hieroglyphic' street scenes (1913-14) ; Pierre Bonnard : a new space for the self (1924-46) ; Soutine and instability (1919-22) ; Frida Kahlo : What the water gave me (1934-38) ; Stanley Spencer : the sacred self and the Church of me (1937-59) ; Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or theatre? (1940-42) ; Max Beckmann : epics of self-art in Amsterdam (1937-46) ; Edvard Munch : Between clock and bed (1940-43) -- 4. Beyond the formalist canon : visionaries, dreamers, outsiders. Alfred Kubin's Other side (1900-1930) ; Image against the word : Rabindranath Tagore as a painter (1928-40) ; Jack Yeats : towards 'The half-dreaming state' (1932-55) ; Henry Darger and The realms of the unreal (1937-73) ; Jacob Lawrence : The migration of the Negro (1940-41) ; Ken Kiff and The sequence (1971-90) -- 5. After Abstract Expressionism : towards a new history painting. R. B. Kitaj : avatar of Ezra (1960-76) ; David Hockney's The second marriage (1963) ; Alex Katz : the early cut-outs and their milieu (1959-62) ; Red Grooms and the sculpto-pictorama (1962-76) ; Georg Baselitz : Big night down the drain (1962-63) ; Philip Guston's renewal-by-drawing (1965-67) ; 'To bring back the lost reality of the world' : Bhupen Khakhar and Indian experience (1975-87) ; Anselm Kiefer : Operation sea lion (1975-84) ; Ida Applebroog's Polyptychs (1986-89) ; William Kentridge's Felix narratives (1989-2003) ; Neo Rauch and Leipzig figuration (1999-2005) ; Leon Golub's final paintings (1999-2002) -- Epilogue: Continuous narratives.

Call Number

JQF 19-129

ISBN

• 9780500239452
• 0500239452

LCCN

2015959507

OCLC

958378003

Author

Hyman, Timothy, author.

Title

The world new made : figurative painting in the twentieth century / Timothy Hyman.

Publisher

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-247) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JQF 19-129