From trend-setting British collector/ entrepreneur Charles Saatchi comes the companion volume to a three-part exhibition of the same name at his eponymous gallery in London. Announcing a watershed moment in contemporary art-the triumphant return of the image as depicted by paint on canvas-this unusual show purports to document paintings latest renaissance, starting with works from the 1980s and 1990s by the eclectically offbeat and legendary Martin Kippenberger and then expanding to paintings by younger artists dated as recently as 2004. All 56 artists profiled have well-established reputations, almost half work in Britain or Germany (only eight in the United States), and all the paintings exhibited belong to Saatchi. In 1981, the Royal Academys A New Spirit of Painting made a similar attempt to reclaim the two-dimensional medium and fizzled; the jury is out as to whether Triumph can succeed. Saatchi has been called a shameless self-promoter, a visionary patron of the arts, and some combination of the two, but one thing is clear: his lavish slab of a catalog will be sought out by contemporary art lovers of all camps. Though light on text, it presents vivid, full-page reproductions of over 200 of the 350 paintings exhibited.