Taking Edouard Manet as its starting point and moving through the work of major painters and sculptors such as Ensor,Boccioni, Duchamp, Kollwitz, Kirchner,Beckmann, Magritte, Picasso, Hopper,Warhol Hamilton, Pistoletto, Richter,Acconci, Sherman, SchEitte, Ofili and Kentridge, as well as photographers such as Atget, BrassaY, Evans, Levitt, Arnold,Weegee, GiacomeUi, Goldin and Ke/ta, Faces in the Crowd traces a history of avant-garde figuration from the 1870s to today through the works of one hundred artists.

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd;petals on a wet, black bough."Ezra Pound’s celebrated haiku gives a powerful evocation of the individual immersed within the crowd, of a moment of stillness in the bustle of the modern metropolis. It has provided the title for an exhibition that explores the condition of modernity through figurative art.

Taking Edouard Manet as its starting point and moving through the work of major painters and sculptors such as Ensor,Boccioni, Duchamp, Kollwitz, Kirchner,Beckmann, Magritte, Picasso, Hopper,Warhol Hamilton, Pistoletto, Richter,Acconci, Sherman, SchEitte, Ofili and Kentridge, as well as photographers such as Atget, BrassaY, Evans, Levitt, Arnold,Weegee, GiacomeUi, Goldin and Ke/ta, Faces in the Crowd traces a history of avant-garde figuration from the 1870s to today through the works of one hundred artists.

The great revolutions in twentieth century art tend to be associated with abstraction. Yet there is a paraUel history, which is equally radical Manet’s vividly realist scenarios or Jeff Wa/Vs cinematic tableaux offer a compelling pictorial illusion of the modern.By contrast, Edvard Munch or Francis Bacon present a tortured or exhilarated inner life.For Alexandr Rodchenko, the figure can be an agent of social change, revolutionary,transgressive or symbolic.

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition organised by the Whitechapel Gallery and the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. With new essays by Iwona Blazwick and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, curators, as well as by Ester Coen, Chartes Harrison, and Jill Lloyd, this catalogue includes an anthology of quotes and writings by authors including Baudelaire, Poe, Benjamin, Le Bon, Simmel,Freud, Adorno, Canetti, Arendt, Walt and Buck-Morss.

Faces in the Crowd Iwona Btazwick VoZti nella folla

Radical Visions of Modern Lee Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev visioni radicaU della vita modema

we will Sing of Greot Crowds Ester Coen Canteremo le grandi.folle

Looking Out, Looking In Charles Harrison Sguardi da dentro, sguardi da fuofi

ndividuals in Threat of Extinction Jill LLoyd Individui a nschio d’estinzione

A Note on Manet’s Masked Ball at the Opera Jeft Wall Nota sul Ba[[o in maschera all’Onera di klnnpt :

Ezra Pound

Virqinia Wootf

edouard Manet

Linda NochLin

Henri de TouLouse-Lautrec

Edvard Munch

3ames Ensor

Eugene ALger

Edgar ALLan Poe

Charles BaudeLaire

Walter Benjamin

T. J. CLark

Paul Vatery

FiLippo Tommaso Marinetti

Gustave Le Bon

Georg SimmeL

Henri Bergson

WaLter Sickert

Kathe KoLLwitz

Umberto Boccioni

CarLo Carr&Pablo Picasso

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

George Grosz

Marcel Duchamp

Man Raiy

David Bomberg

Fernand Leger

Edward Hopper

ALexandr Rodchenko

Gyorgy Lukacs

Gustav Klucis

Tina Modotti

Charles SheeLer & Paul Strand

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