John Seed - Nicholas Wilton

Reveals the contemporary art phenomenon of disrupted realism through the paintings of 43 artists at its core.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Profoundly shaped by the events, forces, and overflow of today's disjointed, social-media-heavy life, these artists' paintings are "disrupted" stylistically, thematically, or sometimes both.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They allow us to appreciate how art relates to the "super-fast, simultaneous, almost dizzyingly paced scrolling" of our lives.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Foreword by artist Nicholas Wilton, founder of Art2Life<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Features a special essay on artist Jenny Saville, who has inspired many contemporary representational artists to disrupt their art<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- More than half of the artists are from outside the US; includes women and BIPOC artists<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Artists' comments presented in an engaging question-and-answer style<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Artists include Casey Baugh, Jenny Saville, Joseph Lee, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Justin Mortimer, and dozens more<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- Art writer and curator John Seed is the foremost authority on disrupted realism and is the author of Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World