Realism in 20th century painting / Brendan Prendeville.

By: Prendeville, Brendan [author.]
Language: English Publisher: New York, N.Y., Thames & Hudson, 2000Description: 224 pages : illustration. (some color) ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0500203369Other title: Realism in twentieth century paintingSubject(s): Realism in art | Painting, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 759.06 LOC classification: ND196.R4 | P74 2000
Contents:
Realism and its meanings The Realism of modernism: from the turn of the century to the First World War Between wars: realism, modernity and politics From War to Cold war New realities
Summary: This first ever survey of the subject demonstrates that realism has had a continuous yet restlessly changing place in American and European painting throughout the twentieth century--from Eakins, Bellows, and Homer, through Vuillard, Bonnard, Schiele, Morandi, Hopper, and Giacometti, to Balthus, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney. Most accounts of twentieth-century art have tended to overlook the persistent, diverse, vibrant, and powerful presence of realist painting. Brendan Prendeville discusses the historical, artistic, and critical contexts in which painting has taken a realist turn, from the Ashcan School to Soviet Socialist Realism, from painting of the Existentialist era to the time of Photorealism. In this period, he argues, the western tradition of pictorial realism has in fact been renewed and modified through the diverse influences of modernism, political conflict, and new visual technologies. 180 illustrations, 80 in color. - Publisher
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Brendan Prendeville lectures in art history and visual culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has published widely on realist painting, phenomenology and visual theory, and has curated exhibitions on associated themes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Realism and its meanings
The Realism of modernism: from the turn of the century to the First World War
Between wars: realism, modernity and politics
From War to Cold war
New realities

This first ever survey of the subject demonstrates that realism has had a continuous yet restlessly changing place in American and European painting throughout the twentieth century--from Eakins, Bellows, and Homer, through Vuillard, Bonnard, Schiele, Morandi, Hopper, and Giacometti, to Balthus, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney. Most accounts of twentieth-century art have tended to overlook the persistent, diverse, vibrant, and powerful presence of realist painting. Brendan Prendeville discusses the historical, artistic, and critical contexts in which painting has taken a realist turn, from the Ashcan School to Soviet Socialist Realism, from painting of the Existentialist era to the time of Photorealism. In this period, he argues, the western tradition of pictorial realism has in fact been renewed and modified through the diverse influences of modernism, political conflict, and new visual technologies. 180 illustrations, 80 in color. - Publisher

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