THE OBSERVER EFFEC/

In The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky looks at the different directions that painting ha s taken since the turn of the millennium. He deflates the twentieth-century belief that abstraction and figuration in painting are d ichotomous. Instead, Schwabsky argues, they are methods of asking or answering the questions: What is painting? What can painting be come in an observers encounter with it? This wide-ranging selection of texts emphasizes the coextensive work the viewer brings to p ainting a...[Read more]