Art of the real :  nine American figurative painters / 
edited by Mark Strand ; foreword by Robert Hughes ; photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  C.N. Potter :  Distributed by Crown Publishers,  c1983 
 - 239 p. :  illus. ;  29 cm 
<br/><br/> "Art of the Real" presents the work of nine foremost figurative Lennart Anderson, William Bailey, Jack Beal, Jane Freilicher, Alex katz, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Philip Pearlstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Neil Welliver. These painters, who should perhaps be called the first new realists, began painting in the postwar period when abstract expressionism was on the ascendancy. The book contains 111 full-color paintings and 78 black-and-white drawings, paintings, and pastels illustrate the range, style, method, and importance of the of the figurative movement in American painting.<br/> 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0517547597 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Figurative painting, American--20th century<br/>Realism in art
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>REF 759.13 STR