TY - BOOK AU - McCann,Margaret ED - New York Academy of Art TI - The figure: painting, drawing, and sculpture : contemporary perspectives SN - 0847843750 AV - Art/N7570 .F553 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Skira Rizzoli KW - Human figure in art KW - History N1 - "In association with The New York Academy of Art"--Dust jacket; Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235) and index; The once and future sculpted figure; Judy Fox --; A brief history of traditional painting pedagogy; Thomas Germano --; A brief history of traditional painting techniques: fresco, tempera, and oil painting; Lisa Bartolozzi --; Outsourcing technique: mimesis, method, and metaphor in figure sculpture; Robert Simon --; Toward an allegorization of method; Vincent Desiderio --; The invention of clumsiness: photography and modernism; Alexi Worth --; Refiguring history painting: representation meets modern techniques; Margaret McCann --; Freud and the eternal feminine in modernist painting; Donald Kuspit --; Representational art and kitsch; Kurt Kauper --; Twentieth-century figurative sculpture; Robert Taplin --; Representing avant-garde representation: from painterly figuration to matter-of-fact realism 1950-70; Irving Sandler --; Monsters rule: the grotesque in contemporary painting and sculpture; David Ebony --; Looking back at the male gaze; Julie Heffernan --; The echo in the picture: the social potential of representational painting; Laurie Hogin --; Scale, materials, and self-perception in contemporary figurative sculpture; Mark Mennin --; Painting and digital technology: from film to Photoshop; Jean-Pierre Roy --; Pictorial space enters virtual reality: from perspective to 3-D modeling; John Jacobsmeyer --; Perspective, representation, and democracy; Nicola Verlato ER -