The love of painting : genealogy of a success medium /

Painting seems to have lost its dominant position in the field of the arts. However, looking more closely at exhibited photographs, assemblages, installations or performances, it is evident how the rhetorics of painting still remain omnipresent. Following the tradition of classical theories of paint...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graw, Isabelle (Author)
Other Authors: Dunphy, Niamh (Editor), Hanrahan, Brian (Translator), Jackson, Gerrit (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Painting's intensified externalization and intellectual prestige
  • For connoisseurs only : painting specialists and their subject matter
  • The knowledge of painting : notes on thinking and subject-like pictures
  • The outside is the inside : on Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Painting in a different light : a conversation with Jutta Koether about Joan Mitchell
  • Anti-subjective procedures and self-active paintings
  • The force of the impersonal brush : reflections on Frank Stella's early work
  • Painting as "Object-tableau" : Ellsworth Kelly at Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • The gray haze of subjectivity : on Gerhard Richter at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
  • Unreconciled: De-skilling versus Re-skilling : a conversation with Charline von Heyl
  • Painting against painting
  • Painted critique of painting : from anti-essentialism to the myth of self-activity in the 1960s and 1980s (Immendorff, Polke, Koether, Oehlen, Kippenberger)
  • "Hi, here I am, that must be enough" : the persona and the product in Martin Kippenberger's work
  • Painting as a cover story : a conversation with Merlin Carpenter
  • Painting without painting
  • The absent painter : six theses on the reflection on value and painting in the work of Marcel Broodthaers
  • Painting without a painter : a conversation with Wade Guyton
  • Human figures with a painterly appeal : on anthropomorphism, mannequins, and painting in the work of Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison
  • Beyond network painting
  • Frozen references to life in Avery Singer's paintings
  • The curse of the network : a conversation with myself about Jana Euler's paintings
  • Follow me: painting in the age of social media : a conversation with Alex Israel
  • The value of painting
  • The economy of painting : reflections on the particular value form of the painted canvas
  • Questions of value : a conversation between Kerstin Stakemeier and Isabelle Graw
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author biography
  • Bibliographic note
  • Image credits.