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labunnywtf's review against another edition
3.0
Received via Netgalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
Viewing art is like reading books. Well done pieces evoke emotions, make you feel something deep inside.
Sadly for me, this art style evoked nothing except a minor pain behind my eye from trying to view it.
This is not to bash the artists who created it, clearly this is just not to my taste. I can see why it is appealing, the images are striking, indeed. It simply doesn't work for me, which makes this book not for me.
The stories and interviews about the artists themselves are interesting, but sadly lost on someone who didn't care for the works themselves.
Viewing art is like reading books. Well done pieces evoke emotions, make you feel something deep inside.
Sadly for me, this art style evoked nothing except a minor pain behind my eye from trying to view it.
This is not to bash the artists who created it, clearly this is just not to my taste. I can see why it is appealing, the images are striking, indeed. It simply doesn't work for me, which makes this book not for me.
The stories and interviews about the artists themselves are interesting, but sadly lost on someone who didn't care for the works themselves.
aztheninth's review against another edition
1.0
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book as an arc via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
I wanted to like this book. I hoped the author had curated an interesting selection of painters who bent realism and portraiture in their work. I hoped to find out about new artists I would want to follow on instagram. But I was distracted by what I soon realized was a pretentious faux progressive curation of artists. There are around 20 white male artists, 12 white female artists, 5 POC male artists, 0 POC female artists and only 1 artist who openly talked of being in the LGBT+ community. I kept flipping the pages and reading on hoping the numbers would improve. As the writer/editor/curator of this selection of artists, John Seed is just doing lazy biased curating. I was not surprised to find out John Seed is an older white male. There is no excuse in this day and age for those type of statistics in a book supposedly about contemporary artists. Seed has some European artists to make it more "international"but the efforts are flat and empty when there is so little representation of non white western artists or queer artists.
I don't dislike the art or the artists represented and actually was interested in how the artists explained their processes or themes of their works.
I don't want art books that only serve to highlight white artists with the POC artists or queer artists thrown in for "diversity" purposes.
I wanted to like this book. I hoped the author had curated an interesting selection of painters who bent realism and portraiture in their work. I hoped to find out about new artists I would want to follow on instagram. But I was distracted by what I soon realized was a pretentious faux progressive curation of artists. There are around 20 white male artists, 12 white female artists, 5 POC male artists, 0 POC female artists and only 1 artist who openly talked of being in the LGBT+ community. I kept flipping the pages and reading on hoping the numbers would improve. As the writer/editor/curator of this selection of artists, John Seed is just doing lazy biased curating. I was not surprised to find out John Seed is an older white male. There is no excuse in this day and age for those type of statistics in a book supposedly about contemporary artists. Seed has some European artists to make it more "international"but the efforts are flat and empty when there is so little representation of non white western artists or queer artists.
I don't dislike the art or the artists represented and actually was interested in how the artists explained their processes or themes of their works.
I don't want art books that only serve to highlight white artists with the POC artists or queer artists thrown in for "diversity" purposes.
graypeape's review against another edition
5.0
I really enjoyed this book, it's a must for any art lover. I liked the interview questions especially- it's intriguing to me to learn about how the artists view their work, and to hear about their influences. There are quite a few artists covered in this volume, giving it the feel of an exhibit. I particularly enjoyed the works of Kai Samuels-Davis and Dorian Vallejo. A very interesting book.
#DisruptedRealism #NetGalley
#DisruptedRealism #NetGalley
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