Eric Fischl: Late America

New major catalog devoted to Eric Fischl, one of the leading figurative painters working in the United States today.

Contemporary artist Eric Fischl has maintained an unwavering commitment to painting the human figure throughout his long career, revealing the central role of the body in determining social and individual experience. As the first major book on the artist in more than a decade, this beautifully illustrated publication accompanies a new exhibition, Eric Fischl: Stories Told, in Phoenix, Arizona, and includes early and well-known paintings, as well as works on paper focusing on the inhabitants of middle-class American suburbs, with their social taboos, family secrets, toxic masculinity, and unacknowledged privileges.

Also featured are the recent series of paintings poetically and revealingly titled Late America, Presence of an Absence, and Complications of an Already Unfulfilled Life. These works were created in the contexts of the pandemic, political activism, and division. They are dark in tone and, in a fluid and active style that conveys a greater sense of urgency, reflect both the challenges of our time and the artist's experience and age.

With new and unpublished works, this book will be essential for Fischl's many loyal fans and for anyone interested in modern and contemporary figurative painting.