The Figure

Margaret McCann is a painter, teacher, writer, and curator. Donald Kuspit is an art critic, poet, and professor of art history and philosophy at the SUNY-Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. Irving Sandler is professor of art history at SUNY-Purchase. Writer Bob Colacello is former editor of Andy Warhol s Interview and a regular contributor to Vanity Fair. David Kratz is a painter and has served as the president of New York Academy of Art since 2009.

The Figure, has the look of a high-end coffee table decoration, but don t judge this book just by its Martha Mayer Erlebacher cover. Inside, you will find it crammed not only with striking images but also with essays by critics, artists, and other thinkers that air out thematically related historical, philosophical, theoretical, and technical issues. The Figure is an ambitious and overdue tome that fills a void Huffington Post

The Figure is a wide-ranging survey of contemporary art depicting the human body in all its splendor. Wall Street Journal

The Figure: Painting Drawing and Sculpture, has the look of a high-end coffee table decoration, but don t judge this book just by its Martha Mayer Erlebacher cover. Inside, you will find it crammed not only with striking images but also with essays by critics, artists, and other thinkers that air out thematically related historical, philosophical, theoretical, and technical issues. The Figure is an ambitious and overdue tome that fills a void: if you haven t noticed, contemporary representation is coming on strong. The figure is the greatest subject of all it will live as long as we do and this stimulating book reminds us... If there ever was an art book that needed to become a major exhibition or a maybe a salon The Figure is it. Hyperallergic