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This generously illustrated book examines Photorealism in contemporary art from its roots in the late 1960s to today. Photorealism reintroduced straightforward representation into an art world dominated by Pop Art, Minimalism, Land Art, and Performance Art. Often misunderstood as being overtly (...)

The painter Carl Haag (1820-1915) gained acclaim for his colorful scenes of the Orient and true-to-life portraits, in which Nubian slaves, Arabian camel drivers or Egyptian snake charmers enliven the visual topography. After attending art school in Nuremberg, the son of a baker advanced to become a (...)

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's (...)

Intelligente, curioso, irrequieto, vagabondo, il pittore veronese Giovan Francesco Caroto fu operoso a Mantova, alla corte dei Gonzaga, sotto l'egida di Mantegna; a Milano, al servizio di Antonio Maria Visconti; a Casale Monferrato, alla corte del marchese Guglielmo Paleologo. Conobbe e apprezzò la (...)