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Painting 2.0 : expression in the information age : gesture and spectacle, eccentric figuration, social networks / edited by Manuela Ammer, Achim Hochdörfer, and David Joselit.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Munich : Museum Brandhorst, 2015Description: 287 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783791354910
Subject(s):
Contents:
Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction / Manuela Ammer, Achim Hochdörfer, David Joselit -- Gesture and Spectacle. How the world came in / Achim Hochdörfer -- Plates -- Eccentric figuration. "How's my painting?" (judge me, please, don't judge me) / Manuela Ammer -- Plates -- Social networks. Reassembling painting / David Joselit -- Plates -- Statements. On the art history of expression: the example of Matisse's "Notes of a painter" / Wolfram Pichler -- Ridiculous creatures / Tonio Kröner -- Paint and plaid / Lynne Cooke -- The economy of painting: notes on the vitality of a success medium and the value of liveliness / Isabelle Graw -- Controlled medium specificity: networks and painting / Kerstin Stakemeier -- The sext lihe of painting / John Kelsey -- Exhibition checklist -- Contributors -- Photo credits.
Summary: Examining the resurgent interest in painting and the proliferation of new digital media in recent years, this generously illustrated book delineates painting's complex relationship with information technology. In a survey that begins in the mid-twentieth century, long before the birth of the Internet, this book traces painting's capacity to digest and transform other media, even as its own legitimacy has been questioned. Featuring the work of numerous renowned artists, from Sigmar Polke to Nicole Eisenman and from Cy Twombly to Amy Sillman, the book examines how painting has addressed digital technology as it relates to human experience and perception, and includes three in-depth essays and additional texts by influential thinkers from the field. Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, the book presents a wide range of works that reconsider the assumed opposition of the digital and the analog, the human and the technological, arguing that painting has served as a means to represent - and even enact - new media. This book affirms the ongoing vitality of the medium of painting in the midst of a digital world.
Holdings
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Book Book CGLAS Library Red 759.07 AMM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 07/02/2024 08074

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction / Manuela Ammer, Achim Hochdörfer, David Joselit -- Gesture and Spectacle. How the world came in / Achim Hochdörfer -- Plates -- Eccentric figuration. "How's my painting?" (judge me, please, don't judge me) / Manuela Ammer -- Plates -- Social networks. Reassembling painting / David Joselit -- Plates -- Statements. On the art history of expression: the example of Matisse's "Notes of a painter" / Wolfram Pichler -- Ridiculous creatures / Tonio Kröner -- Paint and plaid / Lynne Cooke -- The economy of painting: notes on the vitality of a success medium and the value of liveliness / Isabelle Graw -- Controlled medium specificity: networks and painting / Kerstin Stakemeier -- The sext lihe of painting / John Kelsey -- Exhibition checklist -- Contributors -- Photo credits.

Examining the resurgent interest in painting and the proliferation of new digital media in recent years, this generously illustrated book delineates painting's complex relationship with information technology. In a survey that begins in the mid-twentieth century, long before the birth of the Internet, this book traces painting's capacity to digest and transform other media, even as its own legitimacy has been questioned. Featuring the work of numerous renowned artists, from Sigmar Polke to Nicole Eisenman and from Cy Twombly to Amy Sillman, the book examines how painting has addressed digital technology as it relates to human experience and perception, and includes three in-depth essays and additional texts by influential thinkers from the field. Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, the book presents a wide range of works that reconsider the assumed opposition of the digital and the analog, the human and the technological, arguing that painting has served as a means to represent - and even enact - new media. This book affirms the ongoing vitality of the medium of painting in the midst of a digital world.

Published to accompany the exhibitions of the same name held at Museum Brandhorst, Munich, 14th November 2015-30th April 2016; and at mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung, Vienna, 4th June-6th November 2016.