Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. has releases its newest fine art title, Bodies of Work—Contemporary Figurative Painting by Lauren P. Della Monica.
Human forms can be intensely intimate or broadly universal. Here, figurative artists use the human form as a tool to express varied content and contemporary issues. These paintings depict our feelings and sentiments, our sense of belonging to a larger community in the contemporary world, while capturing the impulses behind the range of figuration presented by today’s contemporary international artists.
Portraitist Marlene Dumas presents figures in a gritty, unsentimental manner, evoking the essence of the human condition, while Kerry James Marshall paints the life of African-Americans in the twentieth-century, employing recent historical review to document the social challenges.
British artist Jenny Saville paints the figure in massive scale, combined with an overt, never-ending interest in the pure rendering of human flesh. Hope Gangloff paints her figures as characters, intimate friends, and acquaintances, narrating a drama from their canvases. An important resource for those interested in contemporary figurative painting.
About the Author: Lauren Pheeney Della Monica, a New York-based art consultant, specializes in advising private clients on building collections of fine art. After earning her Royal Society of Arts Diploma in Connoisseurship from Christie’s Education followed by her law degree, Lauren worked in an American paintings gallery, the Citibank Private Bank Art Advisory Service, the art law group of a Manhattan law firm, and MoMA’s office of the general counsel before founding her art advisory firm, LPDM Fine Art, in 2004.
She has written books about contemporary art (Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views, Schiffer, 2013) and nineteenth-century American marine painting, as well as numerous articles on art collecting. She is a member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA.) For more information, see www.lpdmfineart.com.
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. is a family-owned, independent publisher of high-quality books. Since 1974, Schiffer has published thousands of titles on the diverse subjects that fuel our readers' passions. From our traditional subjects of antiques and collectibles, arts and crafts, and military history, Schiffer has expanded its catalog to publish books on contemporary art and artists; architecture and design; food and entertaining; the metaphysical, paranormal and folklore; and pop and fringe culture, as well as books for children.
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