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The Boom and Bust of Figurative Painting

Summary by ARTnews
There’s a plausible story about the last half-century of art-making that would go something like this: By around 1950, almost all serious art was abstract. Soon enough, Pop art, Nouveau Réalisme, photorealism, and other tendencies might seem to have heralded a return of the image, but they did not: What they heralded was the return of the Duchampian readymade, sometimes in image form, though this too is a form of abstraction—an art of meta-image…
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ARTnews broke the news in on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
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