Thinking through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency beyond the

Thinking through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas

Painting appears to have dispelled its own once uncontested material basis. No longer synonymous with a flat picture plane hung on the wall, painting in its current incarnations tends instead to emphasize the apparatus of its appearance and the conduits of its circulation. Thinking Â through Painting, from the Institut FÃ¼r Kunstkritik series, investigates painting s traits and reception through contri butions by Peter Geimer and Isabelle Graw. With a focus on Luc Tuymans, Geimer questions the claims commonly made for contemporary painting s superior reflexivity based on its distance from everyday experiences of immersion. Graw situates painting s residual specificity in the semiotic activity of mark making rather than materiality, demonstrating that painting s perseverance is grounded in the suggestion that it can attain agency as a quasi person.
Country USA
Brand Sternberg Press
Manufacturer Sternberg Press
Binding Paperback
Color White
ReleaseDate 2012-09-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9783943365108

Thinking through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas