The figure : painting, drawing, and sculpture : contemporary perspectives / edited by Margaret McCann.

"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.