Unrealism

New Figurative Painting

Author: Jeffrey Deitch and Aria Dean

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Unrealism: New Figurative Art captures the exciting turn to figuration seen in the work of today's emerging artists. Figurative art traditionally does well in book form, and this monograph improves on the model: Bright, accessibly designed, and anything but academic, this is figure painting for a broad art audience.

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The best new figurative painting of the last five years, represented here by an exciting young generation of artists and vital practitioners, reflects the startling return of the oldest art form to address the challenge of contemporary representation through expressionistic compositions and new techniques reflecting digital fluency.

About the Author

Jeffrey Deitch is a leading New York and Los Angeles-based art dealer and curator. Deitch's writings have appeared in several books, among them, the highly acclaimed Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture.
Aria Dean is assistant curator of net art and digital culture at Rhizome.Johanna Fateman is a writer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.Alison Gingeras is a curator and writer, based in New York and Warsaw.