This book looks at the work of twenty-six European painters working this century, from modern masters to contemporary artists. The emphasis is on individual paintings rather than the artists themselves, and the works illustrated exemplify what the author considers to be the central purpose of painting: to make reality visible by presenting objects, figures and spaces on a canvas. The challenge for twentieth-century painters is to acknowledge the framework set up by the history of painting, but to work in ways which will validate the painter's own vision for the time in which he lives.
- ISBN10 0853317062
- ISBN13 9780853317067
- Publish Date 31 August 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 February 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English