Picturing People: The New State of the Art

by Charlotte Mullins

Book Overview

What drives artists to represent people as they do? This question, at the heart of figurative art, and how we represent ourselves as a society, is especially relevant today. Author Charlotte Mullins picks up the conversation at a time when the art world is influenced by the proliferation of images of all kinds, across all mediums, as well as a growing interest in figurative art.

Profiles of nearly sixty artists--from Kara Walker and Grayson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050023938X
• ISBN13: 9780500239384
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 11.0"