THE WORLD NEW MADE

For thousands of years pictorial representations have engaged humankind, yet in the twentieth century, with the arrival of abstracti on and the accompanying liberation of painting from figuration and bourgeois tradition, figurative painting became fraught with diff iculty. For some thirty years, from the early 1950s to the early 1980s, modern art and abstraction were almost synonymous, with figu rative painters cast as backward children, conservative throwbacks, and outdated survivors.In The World New Made, critic Timothy H yman argue...[Read more]