Museum Tusculanum Press publishes Contemporary Painting in Context

The essays collected in Contemporary Painting in Context examine the transformation and expansion of the field of painting over the last decades in relation to the more general lines of development in contemporary culture and visuality. They pose questions like: How do paintings present themselves to us today; how are they ‘framed’ experientially, institutionally and culturally? In which way can contemporary painting be said to reflect and reflect on the historical transformations of culture, visuality and image production and consumption? Is it possible to explain some of the changes and expansions of the field of painting by placing it in the wider context of cultural history or visual culture studies?

The book is divided into five parts, each of them pursuing a distinct line of inquiry: The first part examines how painting can be situated in a wider cultural context, the second how the question of the ontology of painting can be rethought from a contemporary perspective, and the third explores how ‘painting’ can be defined today by taking into consideration that the discipline has assimilated a wealth of new means of expression and materials. The essays in the two last parts of the book address issues with strong political implications: Part four focuses on the role of gender in painting while part five addresses the complex relationship between painting, art institutions and the art market.

Contributors: Jonathan Harris, Peter Weibel, Barry Schwabsky, Stephen Melville, Katharina Grosse, Anne Ring Petersen, Katy Deepwell, Rune Gade, Gitte Ørskou, Chin-Tao Wu

Museum Tusculanum Press
2010 ∙ 220 pp. ∙ Illustrated ∙ 16 x 24 cm
ISBN 978 87 635 2597 8
Series: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Art History Project
27.00 EURO ∙ DKK 198 ∙ 34 USD
Price at http://www.mtp.dk 21 EURO ∙ DKK 158 ∙ 27 USD

CONTENTS

Anne Ring Petersen
Introduction

PART ONE: PAINTING IN THE COMMON CULTURE
Jonathan Harris
‘Contemporary’, ‘Common’, ‘Context’, ‘Criticism’: Painting after the End of Postmodernism

Peter Weibel
Pittura/Immedia: Painting in the Nineties between Mediated Visuality and Visuality in Context

PART TWO: RETHINKING THE ONTOLOGY OF PAINTING
Barry Schwabsky
Object or Project? A Critic’s Reflections on the Ontology of Painting

Stephen Melville
Painting: Ontology and Experience

PART THREE: THE EXPANDED FIELD
Katharina Grosse
The Poise of the Head und die anderen folgen

Anne Ring Petersen
Painting Spaces

PART FOUR: PAINTING AND THE QUESTION OF GENDER-SPECIFICITY
Katy Deepwell
Claims for a Feminist Politics in Painting

Rune Gade
Matter and Meaning: ‘The Slime of Painting’

PART FIVE: PAINTING, INSTITUTIONS, MARKET
Gitte Ørskou
The Longing for Order: Painting as the Gatekeeper of Harmony

Chin-tao Wu
YBA Saatchi? – from Shark Sensation to Pastoral Painting

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