Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting - Softcover

Schwabsky, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714844462 ISBN 13: 9780714844466

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2002

Synopsis

This highly illustrated overview of the state of painting documents concerns and ideas among contemporary painters. Often moving beyond the traditional image associated with this medium, this survey illustrates the richness, eclecticism, dynamism and contemporaneity of painting.

About this title

About the Author:

Barry Schwabsky is a regular editor and contributor to Artforum magazine, and has worked as an editor and contributor to various other contemporary art magazines for many years. In his writing and criticism, painting is often privileged over other art mediums and young painters do often attract his attention. He contributed to Phaidon's Jessica Stockholder in the Contemporary Artists series in 1995. He has taught at the Yale School of Art and at New York University among other institutions. He lives in London, where he is Visiting Lecturer at the Goldsmiths College. About 30 international authors have written the entries on the 114 artists. Critics, curators, journalists, these authors have been chosen for their knowledge of contemporary art and painting.

Review:

"An obligatory purchase for anyone who buys modern art."-The Independent "The most lavish, comprehensive and useful guide to the new painting."-Art Monthly "Forget C, D and E - P is the only supplement you'll ever need."-Art Review "The most recent proof that painting, a supposedly moribund art form, is not dead after all comes in the form of a handsome, dazzlingly produced art book."-Vogue "While the art establishment, between bouts of kicking the dead corpse of painting, can only occasionally be shocked into sitting up and paying attention, thousands of artists all over the world are voting with their brushes. To celebrate, comes Vitamin P, a lavish, affordable and truly international overview of 114 artists nominated by critics and curators... This is one vitamin that is incontrovertibly of benefit to everyone and just the pep pill these artists deserve."-i-D "[Vitamin P] provides unusual depth for a survey of this scope... Barry Schwabsky's perceptive introductory essay provides an excellent map of how we got here...Flash Art

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0714844462
• ISBN 13: 9780714844466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352