Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World

by John Seed

Katherine Stanek (Foreword)

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The first book to survey the works of 38 contemporary painters who are "disrupting" figurative painting with technology- and memory-inspired alterations.

Disrupted Realism takes an in-depth look at the works of contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the tradition of Realism, helping art lovers, collectors, and artists approach and understand this compelling new phenomenon. 

  • Includes the works of 38 artists whose paintings respond to the subjectivity and disruptions of modern experience.
  • Six sections lay out and analyze common themes: "Toward Abstraction," "Disrupted Bodies," "Emotions and Identities," "Myths and Visions," "Patterns, Planes, and Formations," and "Between Painting and Photography."
  • Interviews with each artist offer additional insight into some of the most incisive and relevant paintings being created today.

Widely published author and blogger John Seed, who believes that we are “the most distracted society in the history of the world,” has selected artists he sees as visionaries in the developing Realism movement. The artists’ impulses toward disruption are as individual as the artists themselves, but all share the need to include perception and emotion in their artistic process.

  • ISBN10 0764358014
  • ISBN13 9780764358012
  • Publish Date 28 September 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Schiffer Publishing Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Language English