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Critical perspectives on contemporary painting : hybridity, hegemony, historicism / edited by Jonathan Harris.

Contributor(s): Series: Tate Gallery Liverpool critical forumPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003Description: 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0853239584
  • 9780853239581
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction : Hybridity, hegemony, historicism / Jonathan Harris -- Painting in a 'hybrid moment' / Alison Rowley & Griselda Pollock -- Painting as aporia / David Green -- Technology, time, and the return of abstract painting / Graham MacPhee -- Tracing hybrid strategies in Brazilian modern art / Michael Asbury -- Beatriz Milhazes : towards a tropical syntax / Katya Garcia Anton -- Artists on hybridity : statements by / Joshua Mosley, Andrew Johnson, Clayton Merrell, Paul Hubbard, Margery Amdur and Martha J. Gelarden -- Hybridity versus tradition : contemporary art and cultural politics / Jonathan Harris -- Well-connected : hybrids, Philip Guston, and Kraftwerk / Simon Wallis.
Summary: This collection of essays examines and assesses the current status of painting within global contemporary art. The meaning and value of 'painting' as both a category and a set of practices is analysed ... also included are perceptive contributions from several contemporary artists. Concerned with the internationalisation of contemporary art as a feature of globalisation, Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting sheds new light on fine art understood as a facet of a global culture and society dominated by northern and European-US power and history. What kinds of resistance to this hegemony might be possible for artists located in the 'third world' yet inescapably implicated in the big business of the 'art world'?

Essays based on an annual conference.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Hybridity, hegemony, historicism / Jonathan Harris -- Painting in a 'hybrid moment' / Alison Rowley & Griselda Pollock -- Painting as aporia / David Green -- Technology, time, and the return of abstract painting / Graham MacPhee -- Tracing hybrid strategies in Brazilian modern art / Michael Asbury -- Beatriz Milhazes : towards a tropical syntax / Katya Garcia Anton -- Artists on hybridity : statements by / Joshua Mosley, Andrew Johnson, Clayton Merrell, Paul Hubbard, Margery Amdur and Martha J. Gelarden -- Hybridity versus tradition : contemporary art and cultural politics / Jonathan Harris -- Well-connected : hybrids, Philip Guston, and Kraftwerk / Simon Wallis.

This collection of essays examines and assesses the current status of painting within global contemporary art. The meaning and value of 'painting' as both a category and a set of practices is analysed ... also included are perceptive contributions from several contemporary artists. Concerned with the internationalisation of contemporary art as a feature of globalisation, Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting sheds new light on fine art understood as a facet of a global culture and society dominated by northern and European-US power and history. What kinds of resistance to this hegemony might be possible for artists located in the 'third world' yet inescapably implicated in the big business of the 'art world'?