After Modernist Painting: The History Of A Contemporary Practice (international Library Of Modern And Contemporary Art)
by Craig Staff /
2013 / English / PDF
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Painting has often been declared dead since the 1960s and yet it
refuses to die. Even the status and continued legitimacy of the
medium has been repeatedly placed in question. As such, painting
has had to continually redefine its own parameters and
re-negotiate for itself a critical position within a broader,
more discursive set of discourses. Taking the American Clement
Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting' as a point of departure, After
Modernist Painting will be both a historical survey and a
critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of
the medium of painting over the last 50 years. Presenting the
first critical account of painting, rather than art generally,
this book provides a timely exploration of what has remained a
persistent and protean medium. Craig Staff focuses on certain
developments including the relationship of painting to Conceptual
Art and Minimalism, the pronouncement of paintings alleged death,
its response to Installation Art's foregrounding of site, how it
was able to interpret ideas around appropriation, simulation and
hybridity and how today painting can be understood as both
imaging and imagining the digital. After Modernist Painting is an
invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the themes
and issues that have pertained to painting within the context of
post modernism and contemporary artistic practice.
Painting has often been declared dead since the 1960s and yet it
refuses to die. Even the status and continued legitimacy of the
medium has been repeatedly placed in question. As such, painting
has had to continually redefine its own parameters and
re-negotiate for itself a critical position within a broader,
more discursive set of discourses. Taking the American Clement
Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting' as a point of departure, After
Modernist Painting will be both a historical survey and a
critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of
the medium of painting over the last 50 years. Presenting the
first critical account of painting, rather than art generally,
this book provides a timely exploration of what has remained a
persistent and protean medium. Craig Staff focuses on certain
developments including the relationship of painting to Conceptual
Art and Minimalism, the pronouncement of paintings alleged death,
its response to Installation Art's foregrounding of site, how it
was able to interpret ideas around appropriation, simulation and
hybridity and how today painting can be understood as both
imaging and imagining the digital. After Modernist Painting is an
invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the themes
and issues that have pertained to painting within the context of
post modernism and contemporary artistic practice.