The Love of Painting - Genealogy of a Success Medium

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Love of Painting - Genealogy of a Success Medium
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Isabelle Graw
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:364
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 140
Category/GenrePhilosophy - aesthetics
ISBN/Barcode 9783956792519
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 2 April 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

A study of how the rhetoric of painting remains omnipresent in the field of art.Painting seems to have lost its dominant position in the field of the arts. However, looking more closely at exhibited photographs, assemblages, installations, or performances, it is evident how the rhetorics of painting still remain omnipresent. Following the tradition of classical theories of painting based on exchanges with artists, Isabelle Graw's The Love of Painting considers the art form not as something fixed, but as a visual and discursive material formation with the potential to fascinate owing to its ability to produce the fantasy of liveliness. Thus, painting is not restricted to the limits of its own frame, but possesses a specific potential that is located in its material and physical signs. Its value is grounded in its capacity to both reveal and mystify its conditions of production. Alongside in-depth analyses of the work of artists like douard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, and Marcel Broodthaers, the book includes conversations with artists in which Graw's insights are further discussed and put to the test.

Author Biography

Isabelle Graw (Frankfurt am Main/Berlin) is Professor of Art Theory and Art History at the Staatliche Hochschule f r bildende K nste-St delschule, Frankfurt am Main. In 1990 Graw and Stefan Germer founded the quarterly magazine Texte zur Kunst. In 2003, Graw and Daniel Birnbaum founded the Institut f r Kunstkritik at the St delschule.