Jenny Saville

At thirty-two, Jenny Saville has had a career most artists twice her age would envy. In 1992, the year she completed her studies at Glasgow School of Art, her graduation exhibition sold out. Most notably, one painting was bought by Charles Saatchi and, since then, her international reputation has grown at a rapid and steady pace.Jenny Saville is described as a "New Old Master" for the technical proficiency of her oversize nudes that have earned her comparisons to Rubens and Lucian Freud and universal praise from critics and art historians alike. For the conceptual underpinnings of her work, she has been hailed as one of the most interesting artists of the last decade. Her work has been shown alongside that of Damien Hirst and the other Young British Artists in the acclaimed and seminal survey of new British art Sensation at the Royal Academy (London, 1997) and the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York, 2000).This is the only monograph devoted to the critically acclaimed young artist and features all of Jenny Saville's paintings to date-including many previously unpublished. This volume is being published in association with the Gagosian Gallery in London. The power of her brilliant and relentless embodiment of our worst anxieties about our own corporeality and gender is what distinguishes Saville from other paint-obsessed representers of the naked human body. To my eye, no other artist in recent memory has combined empathy and distance with such visual and emotional impact. -Linda Nochlin, Art in America, March 2000 more

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3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-16-2008; Beautifully illustrated - but overdone; The book opens with two short essays and a reprint from The Independent, January 30 1994, which is a statement by the artist about her work and her approach; in addition there is an interview with Jenny Saville, May 2005, in which she...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-28-2008; She stunned the pros; I pre-ordered this book and when it arrived, I was not disappointed. I pored over it for a few days before bringing it to the studio to show the artists who work in my studio. They were equally excited by this collection, but then what...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-09-2007; wow; bought it at moma-snatched it up. love this painter-she is extremely talented. good book too. missed the last gagosian show:(; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-06-2007; Very Nice Book; This book is top-notch. The reproductions are very well done, and there are tons of close-up shots of individual paintings showing Saville's brush work. I would highly recommend this to anyone with an interest in contemporary art,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-28-2008; She stunned the pros; I pre-ordered this book and when it arrived, I was not disappointed. I pored over it for a few days before bringing it to the studio to show the artists who work in my studio. They were equally excited by this collection, but then what...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-16-2008; Beautifully illustrated - but overdone; The book opens with two short essays and a reprint from The Independent, January 30 1994, which is a statement by the artist about her work and her approach; in addition there is an interview with Jenny Saville, May 2005, in which she...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-27-2007; ITS OK; I THINK THAT THIS IS REALLY LIFELIKE AND I LIKE THE WAY THAT SHE USES SLIGHTLY BIGGER WOMEN IN HER PAINTINGS BEACAUSE TODAYS MEDIA LOOKS LIKE WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF PERFECT, SKINNY, SIZE 2 MODELS AND THAT DOESNT REFLECT THE GENERAL...; read full review | report as inappropriate