Painting Beyond Itself - The Medium in the Post-medium Condition (Sternberg Press / Institut Für Kunstkritik) - Softcover

Isabelle Graw

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3956790073 ISBN 13: 9783956790072

Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2016

Synopsis

In response to recent developments in pictorial practice and critical discourse, Painting beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-medium Condition seeks new ways to approach and historicize the question of the medium. Reaching back to the earliest theoretical and institutional definitions of painting, this book - based on a conference at Harvard University in 2013 - focuses on the changing role of materiality in establishing painting as the privileged practice, discourse, and institution of modernity. Myriad conceptions of the medium and its specificity are explored by an international group of scholars, critics, and artists. Painting beyond Itself is a forum for rich historical, theoretical, and practice-grounded conversation.

About this title

About the Author:

David Joselit is Distinguished Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center at CUNY. He is the author of Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941, Feedback: Television against Democracy (both published by the MIT Press), American Art Since 1945, and After Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 3956790073
• ISBN 13: 9783956790072
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292