ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction; 1. Arbitrary Objects; 2. Auto-Critique; 3. Painting in the expanded Field; 4. A Costume of Rags; 5. Manic Mourning; 6. An-Atomising Abstraction; 7. Situating Painting; 8. Imag[in]ing the Digital; Notes; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Painting has often been declared dead since the 1960s and yet it refuses to die. Even the status and continued legitimacy of the medium has been repeatedly placed in question. As such, painting has had to continually redefine its own parameters and re-negotiate for itself a critical position within a broader, more discursive set of discourses. Taking the American Clement Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting' as a point of departure, After Modernist Painting will be both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of the medium of painting over the last 50
