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A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.
A study of the typical chracteristics of twentieth-century realism.
In an introductory essay, David Shapiro appraises the roots and achievements of Social Realism, providing an overall framework within which the source material that follows can be understood. Was Social Realism only a response to the economic collapse of the 1930s, or was it part of a continuing American art tradition? A primary selection of documents -- ranging from Hugo Gellert's exultant" We Capture the Walls" (1932) to Oliver Larkin's retrospective "Common Cause" (1949) -- fixes the period's social and aesthetic background. It includes spirited contributions by Diego Rivera, Meyer Schapiro, Stuart Davis, and others. A second selection of documents focuses on five major Social Realists -- Philip Evergood, William Gropper, Jacob Lawrence, Jack Levine, and Ben Shahn -- for closer study. This section includes individual biographical outlines, personal statements by the artists, and representative critical analyses of their work. The book concludes with an especially compiled list of major Social Realists, an extended bibliography, and a detailed index. Includes ten reproductions. --! From book jacket.
"This is the first thorough history and analysis of Realism in the 19th Century art from the 1830s to the 1880s when the Impressionist group broke up. The book begins with the origins of Realism at the start of the century and ends with the last phase of Realism after 1880. In addition to artists from England and France, the book includes artists from Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, and Italy. A distinctive feature is the coverage of prints and the graphic arts that played a crucial role in the development of realism, ranging from popular illustrations in magazines and books to painter's etchings and engravings. Photography an as art form and an influence is examined as are such new visual media as the Panorama and Diorama. Some of the artists indluded are : Corot, Constable, Gericault, Daumier, Boudin, Cassatt, Krohg, Hunt, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Courbet, Millet, Klinger, Menzel, Signorini, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Whistler, Degas, Lieberman, Shevchenko, Repin, Caillebott"--back cover.
Disrupted Realism is the first book to survey the works of contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the tradition of Realism. Helping art lovers, collectors, and artists approach and understand this compelling new phenomenon, it includes the works of 38 artists whose paintings respond to the subjectivity and disruptions of modern experience. Widely published author and blogger John Seed, who believes that we are "the most distracted society in the history of the world," has selected artists he sees as visionaries in this developing movement. The artists' impulses toward disruption are as individual as the artists themselves, but all share the need to include perception and emotion in their artistic process. Six sections lay out and analyze common themes: "Toward Abstraction," "Disrupted Bodies," "Emotions and Identities," "Myths and Visions," "Patterns, Planes, and Formations," and "Between Painting and Photography." Interviews with each artist offer additional insight into some of the most incisive and relevant painting being created today.
"Realism materialism art (RMA) introduces a diverse selection of new realist and materialist philosophies and examines their ramifications on the arts. Encompassing neo-materialist theories, object-oriented ontologies, and neo-rationalist philosophies, RMA serves as a primer on "speculative realism," considering its conceptual innovations as spurs to artistic thinking and practice and beyond."--From publisher's description.
Predenville discusses the historical, artistic, and critical contexts in which painting has taken a realist turn. Color illustrations.
Presents an introduction to Realism, describing the art movement's basic tenets, how and when it started, and its most significant artists.
Draws upon the German and Austrian paintings of the George Economou Collection to explore the vibrant art of magic realism, first coined by the German artist and critic Franz Roh in 1926, to describe a shift from the spiritual and anxious art of the Expressionist era, towards something more directly located in actuality