PAINTING NOW

The book offers an original survey of contemporary work a critical snapshot that brings together more than 200 artists from around t he world who are defining the painterly ideas and aesthetics of our time. The introduction maps out the history of painting in the m odern and postmodern eras, followed by six chapters that offer a wideranging thematic analysis of the field, addressing such ideas a s appropriation, attitude, production and distribution, the body, painting about painting, and painters who introduce performance, i nstallat...[Read more]