Vitamin P New Perspectives in Painting

by Bang Larsen, Lars; Chua, Lawrence; Colombo, Paolo

• ISBN13: 9780714842462
• ISBN10: 071484246X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-23
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

With a concept similar to "cream", this text is an image-heavy book offeringn overview of the state of painting today, and documents the most recentoncerns and ideas among contemporary painters. In the wake of media such asnstallation, video, performance and digital art, the traditional medium ofainting has enjoyed a renaissance among a recent generation of artists.longside the ever-growing reputation of significant living painters such aserhard Richter, Agnes Martin and Peter Halley, many younger artists havehosen painting over any other medium, and are exploring new means to broadenhe traditional field of "oil on canvas". It is this younger generation (whomerged in the 1990s) that "Vitamin P" aims to represent in an A-Z survey of14 of its leading, international practitioners, with each artist illustratedy numerous examples of his or her works, accompanied by a short explanatoryext.;Often moving beyond the most traditional image associated with thisedium, This survey hopes to illustrate the richness, eclecticism, dynamismnd contemporaneity of the practice of painting today.

Author Biography

Barry Schwabsky is a regular editor and contributor to Artforum magazine, and has worked as an editor and contributor to various other contemporary art magazines for many years. In his writing and criticism, painting is often privileged over other art mediums and young painters do often attract his attention. He contributed to Phaidon's Jessica Stockholder in the Contemporary Artists series in 1995. He has taught at the Yale School of Art and at New York University, amongst other institutions. He recently moved from New York to London, where he is Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmith's College.

Thirty-five international authors have written the entries on the 114 artists. Critics, curators and journalists, these authors have been chosen for their knowledge of contemporary art and painting.