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Synopsis
Julian Bell’s incisive, fully updated study of modern art and the nature of painting, which daringly tries to explain it
“Yes, but is it art?” This lucid book by Julian Bell, himself a painter, confronts the uncertainty many people feel about art today and challenges generally accepted ideas.
Now in a completely revised second edition, What is Painting? is a fresh, focused look at painting. Bell addresses questions such as “does anything unite those objects we call paintings?” and “what factors have changed the nature of painting over the last two centuries?” by looking at historical evidence and reasoning from common experience. The current shape of painting pushes the book’s arguments in new directions and a substantial new chapter, The Arts and Art, speaks to the interplay between 2D work, 3D work, and the immateriality of digital imagery. The text has been revised paragraph by paragraph considering both force of presentation andr />historical perspective. The intention is to provide a general reader’s introduction to theories of painting that is not only reliably informative but stimulating and amusing to read. The book is an introductory guide to art theory for everyone interested in understanding modern art or in making art themselves.
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Julian Bell is a well-known artist, writer, and critic. His work has been widely exhibited in New York and London.
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- PublisherThames & Hudson
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0500239738
- ISBN 13 9780500239735
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. At the turn of the twenty-first century, many felt sceptical or confused about painting's on-going cultural relevance. In this context, Julian Bell's What is Painting? provided an accessible and inspired account of artistic thinking and practice, and of the complexities then facing artists and their audiences. Eighteen years on, the situation is partly reversed. Painting has proved too resilient a practice to be marginalized any longer. Yet is there any sense of forward momentum for the art? Interrogating the factors that have changed our ideas of painting over the past two centuries, Bell addresses relations between figuration and abstraction and between narrative and non-narrative painting, as well as the waning of conceptual art's dominance and the proliferation of experiments with the physical limits of painting. He also clarifies general concepts such as 'expression' and 'representation'.Fully revised to provide a fresh look at the situation of painting, this new edition maintains the objective of lucid, historically informative explanation that earned the original edition its status as a text of lasting value. The book provides a general reader's introduction to theories of painting that is not only reliable, but also stimulating and amusing to read. A new, significantly revised edition of Julian Bells 1999 book, taking a fresh, focused look at the situation of painting in contemporary culture. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780500239735
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