Painting beyond itself : the medium in the post-medium condition /
edited by Isabelle Graw and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth.
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2016]
- 289 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Based on a conference at Harvard University in 2013--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Marking, scoring, storing, and speculating (on time) / Scenes of instruction / Beyond, beyond! Two years after the conference / Modern color: a new paradigm / The value of liveliness: painting as an index of agency in the new economy / On color / Welcome to the second day / Painting photography painting: timelines and medium specificities / Rehearsing in/with media: some remarks on the relationship between dance, film and painting / Thread, pixel, grain / Body and soul: about the practice of painting in France (1660-1770) / A nude in the neo-avant-garde Ema (Nude on a staircase), 1966 / Notes on painting / David Joselit -- Ewa Lajer-Burcharth -- Jutta Koether -- Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- Isabelle Graw -- Amy Sillman -- Isabelle Graw -- Carol Armstrong -- Sabeth Buchmann -- Matt Saunders -- René Démoris -- Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Julie Mehretu.
In response to recent developments in pictorial practice and critical discourse, Painting beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-medium Condition seeks new ways to approach and historicize the question of the medium. Reaching back to the earliest theoretical and institutional definitions of painting, this book - based on a conference at Harvard University in 2013 - focuses on the changing role of materiality in establishing painting as the privileged practice, discourse, and institution of modernity. Myriad conceptions of the medium and its specificity are explored by an international group of scholars, critics, and artists. Painting beyond Itself is a forum for rich historical, theoretical, and practice-grounded conversation.