TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hyman,Timothy
TI  - The world new made: figurative painting in the twentieth century 
SN  - 9780500239452 (hbk.) :
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames and Hudson
KW  - Portrait painting
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Figurative painting
KW  - Art and Design
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Specialized
N2  - Figurative painting is due a reappraisal. From the early 1950s to the early 1980s, modern art and abstraction were almost synonymous, with figurative painters cast as 'backward children', conservative throwbacks and outdated survivors. In 'The World New Made,' Timothy Hyman argues that figuration never went away; abstraction was just one of the ways by which artists renewed pictorial language. 'The World New Made' is structured not as a general survey, but as an in-depth exploration of over 130 specific paintings, and accompanying artists' writings
ER  -