Painting people : figure painting today / Charlotte Mullins.

Originally published: London : Thames and Hudson, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187) and index.

Introduction -- 1. The figure unravelled -- Chuck Close -- Yi Chen -- Mika Kato -- Philip Akkerman -- Margherita Manzelli -- Jenny Saville -- Cecily Brown -- Lucian Freud -- Lisa Yuskavage -- Chantal Joffe -- Nicola Tyson -- Marlene Dumas -- Yan Pei-Ming -- Mari Sunna -- Barnaby Furnas -- Rezi Van Lankveld -- 2. The urban condition -- Thomas Eggerer -- Jules de Balincourt -- Geraint Evans -- Martin Maloney -- James Rielly -- Mathew Cerletty -- Eric Fischl -- Dawn Mellor -- Elizabeth Peyton -- Muntean and Rosenblum -- Jun Hasegawa -- Djamel Tatah -- 3. Other worlds -- Rui Matsunaga -- Henning Kles -- Peter Doig -- Andrew Guenther -- Daniel Richter -- Hernan Bas -- Kaye Donachie -- Mamma Andersson -- Milena Dragicevic -- Inka Essenhigh -- Aya Takano -- Raqib Shaw -- Wangechi Mutu -- Chris Ofili -- 4. Folk tales -- Christoph Ruckh{uml}aberle -- Jocelyn Hobbie -- Brian Calvin -- Ridley Howard -- Holly Coulis -- Dana Schutz -- George Condo -- Amy Cutler -- Chéri Samba -- Laylah Ali -- Marcel Dzama -- Neo Rauch -- Norbert Bisky -- J{uml}org Lozek --

5. The past deconstructed -- Luc Tuymans -- Wilhelm Sasnal -- Eberhard Havekost -- Neal Tait -- Micha{uml}el Borremans -- Zhang Xiaogang -- Anna Bjerger -- Glenn Brown -- Mathew Weir -- John Currin -- Richard Wathen -- Bénédicte Peyrat -- Rosson Crow -- Artists' biographies -- Select bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index.