Painting Today
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.22 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0714868566 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This comprehensive survey of contemporary painting presents the broad range of styles, materials and methods that comprise the artform, extending the tradition of Phaidon’s trail–blazing Art Today. Photo‐realism, abstraction, portraiture, installation painting, neo‐expressionism and the Leipzig School are just some of the areas of this thriving medium explored in Painting Today. Since the proclaimed "death of painting" in 1968, artists around the globe have nevertheless continued to expand its imagery, techniques and meanings, and in over 500 illustrations this book presents the work of both famous and emergent painters active around the world. Tony Godfrey presents a lively and authoritative view of the vast range of possibilities that painting today encompasses.
He has published regularly on contemporary art, publishing a book on painting, The New Image: Painting in the Eighties in 1986, a book on drawing, Drawing Today in 1990 and a book on Conceptual Art, Conceptual Art in 1998 (also published by Phaidon), and frequently reviewing exhibitions for The Burlington Magazine.. He has worked at Sotheby’s Institute since 1989, and since 2006 he has also been a P
A wonderful book Hunter Rauso I've gotten through about half of Painting Today so far, and I'm terribly impressed. It's difficult to balance breadth with depth, but Godfrey succeeds at this quite well. Painting Today covers most of the relevant figures while weaving the right amount of detail and description into the text. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in understanding the scope of contemporary painting, a. Very nice book -First of all in my opinion, I think I did a good investment. The quality of the book is excellent, as is usual with books produced by Phaidon. It has lots of pictures and each one has an explanation of the work or the artist who created it. The selection of artists and works pleasantly surprised me. The way in which the author classified the issues can perhaps be seen as it was not the best, but to some exten. "interesting pictures, obscure text" according to Hydra. An interesting collection of paintings, well printed, organized into useful categories. The text varies from being obscure to being useful, hopefully accurate. No great insights. I must confess that I am a beginner with little tolerance for art-speak. I gather that at this time it must be particularly difficult to look over the current painting scene and make much sense out of it much less write a history of t
""Eye‐bogglingly global view of the medium in all styles." – The New York Times"Impeccably curated and exhaustively annotated. An excellent introduction to the contemporary corpus." – Modern Painters" . Powerful and eye‐dazzling." – National Public Radio"Painting Today entertainingly explores how contemporary styles have evolved." – The Times"An impressive sweep through the evolution of current styles. Sixteen clear, well‐argued thematic chapters." – Metro"Tony Godfrey has assembled a colorful array of artists and distilled them into chapters like wandering a vast modern art gallery inspiring." – Artists and Illustrators"Erudite and wide‐ranging analysis