Painting today / Tony Godfrey.

By:

Godfrey, Tony

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2009.Description: 448 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cmISBN:

0714846317
9780714846316

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709 GOD

Contents:

The global scene -- Western traditions -- Neo-expressionism -- Photographic -- Pure abstraction -- Ambiguous abstraction -- The figure -- Painting space -- Landscape -- Death and life -- History painting -- Still life -- Installation painting -- The Leipzig school -- Post-feminism -- Painting tomorrow.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
3 Day Loan	LSAD Library Short Loan	709 GOD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	39002100414169
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709 GOD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available	39002100475475
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709 GOD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	3	Available	39002100476622

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 . 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 . 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 authoritive view of the vast range of possibilities that painting today encompasses.

A worldwide survey of painting from the 1970\'s to the present.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Tony Godfrey is Director of Research at Sotheby's Institute of Art. He has worked at Sotheby's Institute since 1989, and since 2006 he has also been a Professor of Fine Art at Plymouth University. 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 .