Saturday, December 29, 2018

Collated research and links on painting




Loss#2, 170cm Hx 100cm W, mixed media on canvas ( Fiona Halse)



Art historian and critic Isabelle Graw offers up just such a definition, addressing this seemingly contradictory task3 head on, proposing this definition: “Painting is a form of production of signs that is experienced as a highly personalized semiotic activity.”4


Collated resources on contemporary painting:


https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/32448/international-conference-on-contemporary-painting





Jan Verwoert, ‘Why are Conceptual artists painting again? Because they think “it’s a good idea”’.
Keynote speech for the 36th Association of Art Historians Society Conference at the Glasgow School of Art.

·         Painting Abstraction: New Elements In Abstract Painting

·         Books: Painting is a Critical Form, Helen Johnson, 3-Ply

·         The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World


·         Painting Today Tony Godfrey, Phaidon, 2009

·         Painting Abstraction: New Elements In Abstract Painting, Bob Nickas, Phaidon, 2009

·         Painting as Model, Yve Alain Bois, MIT Press, 1993


Contemporary painting exhibitions:




Interesting links/resources:

Isabella Graw, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth – Painting beyond itself. The medium in the post-medium condition


Baudeliare – https://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Baudelaire_Painter-of-Modern-Life_1863.pdf

Thinking Through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency Beyond the Canvas ( book)

Australian Painting:

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/patrick-mccaughey-strange-country-why-australian-painting-matters/


Painting. More Painting, ACCA, 2016


Shut Up and Paint, NGV International

Conferences:



 Interesting articles: 



http://esthesis.org/beyond-zombie-formalism-painting-after-the-end-of-painting-iwo-zmyslony/



http://artfcity.com/2014/02/04/the-painting-is-dead-versus-painting-is-back-list/



https://www.questia.com/library/94448627/the-great-experiment-russian-art-1863-1922





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