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“There are many books that want to take on painting, which is a very visible and collectible medium, but few do so as consistently as the Vitamin P series. It is particularly appealing to approach painting in this manner, an ongoing series with a great selection of artists overseen by the art critic Barry Schwabsky. These are artists regarded very highly across a range of art world practitioners, not all as famous as Chuck Close or Marlene Dumas, but nonetheless consistently regarded as important painters of their generation, roughly from the 1970s onwards.” Read more...
The best books on Figurative Painting Today
Julien Delagrange, Artists & Art Critic
Our most recommended books
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The Artist and His Critic Stripped Bare: Correspondence
by Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel -
Private View: The Lively World of British Art
by Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), Bryan Robertson & John Russell -
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by Reyner Banham -
Worte Nicht in Giftige Buchstaben Einwickeln
by Lisa Wenger & Meret Oppenheim -
A Free House!: Or, The Artist as Craftsman
by Walter Richard Sickert -
Spaces of Experience Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000
by Charlotte Klonk