A celebration of the richness of figurative painting over the last 100 years and a passionate critique of the accepted history of art in the 20th century.

Figurative painting is due a reappraisal. In this passionately argued volume the distinguished writer and artist Timothy Hyman cuts a new path through the tangle of twentieth-century art. The World New Made explores the work of

more than fifty individual painters, presenting a collective 'Resistance' who together offer a human-centred alternative to the dominance of the Abstract

or the Conceptual in conventional narratives of modern art.

Structured not as a survey but as in-depth studies of more than 130 specific artworks,

this lavishly illustrated book brings these often marginalized artists centre-stage: not just Alice Neel and Balthus, Max Beckmann and Frida Kahlo, but also Marsden Hartley and Charlotte Salomon, Bhupen Khakhar and Jacob Lawrence. A rich cast is brought to life, partly through their own writings. As the author argues, 'All across the world, isolated artists found new idioms for human-centred painting in

the midst of modern life.'

对过去100年里丰富的具象绘画的庆祝，以及对20世纪公认的艺术史的热情批判。

具象绘画应该重新得到评价。在这本充满激情的论著中，杰出作家和艺术家蒂莫西·海曼（Timothy Hyman）在二十世纪艺术的纷乱中开辟了一条新的道路。本书探讨了50多位画家的作品，呈现了一个“抵抗”的集体，他们共同提供了一个以人为本的替代方案，以取代抽象或概念在现代艺术传统叙事中的主导地位。

本书的结构不是调查，而是对130多件具象艺术作品的深入研究，将这些经常被边缘化的艺术家带到了舞台中央：比如爱丽丝·尼尔、巴尔蒂斯、马克斯·贝克曼、弗里达·卡洛、马斯登·哈特利、夏洛特·萨洛蒙、布本·哈哈尔、雅各·劳伦斯。丰富的艺术家阵容被带入生活，部分是通过他们自己的著作。正如作者所认为的，“在世界各地，孤立的艺术家们在现代生活中找到了以人为本的绘画新风格。”