An up-to-the-minute survey of contemporary painting featuring 115 artists from around the world, Vitamin P2 allows the reader to look at the medium in detail, to study painting’s unique properties in relation to itself, in relation to contemporary art and in relation to the world at large.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Peio Aguirre
EAN: 9780714861609
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES: 352
WEIGHT: 2500 g
HEIGHT: 290 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Phaidon Press Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-10-24
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GENRE: ART / History / 20th & 21st Century
WIDTH: 250 mm
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Book Themes:
Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 2000 to c 2009, Paintings and painting, History of art
Barry Schwabsky is a London-based writer. Currently International Reviews Editor at Artforum and Art Critic at The Nation, he has contributed to numerous art publications, including Phaidon's Jessica Stockholder (1995) and Vitamin P (2002), and is the author of The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (1997), as well as several volumes of poetry. He has taught at Yale, New York University and Goldsmiths, among other institutions.