'Not only is this book an overview of contemporary painting, it is also an enquiry into how we experience its images, what they mean and why the practice remains vital. The venerable art of painting still thrives as a leading force in the art market. Painting Today explores the development of the medium, especially through the last forty years, and the diversity of paintings now being made internationally.
Critics have suggested that painting lost its way in the second half of the twentieth century. Indeed, the innovations of photography, film, video, installation art and other developments certainly threatened painting's pre-eminence. Yet paintings still command huge prices on the market and artists are using the medium in flourishing numbers. In Painting Today we see how these other art forms have inspired the development of painting techniques and styles, and include hundreds of important works by well-known painters, paintings by artists better known in other media, and very new works by painters just establishing their careers.
The lively yet authoritive writing of Tony Godfrey presents the work of all significant painters working today organized by themes that have long been central in the genre – ranging from still life and landscape to abstraction and installation. Many quotations from artists – from interviews and their own writings – elucidate painters' views on painting and their work in the art form.' (from publisher's website)
Includes artists' biographies, a chronology, a select bibliography, and an index.
Please note that only Asian artists are listed below.
Onsite
Manu CHITRAKAR, 
Francesco CLEMENTE, 
DING Yi, 丁乙, 
Mohammad ENSAI, 
FANG Lijun, 方力鈞, 
Nona GARCIA, 
GENG Jianyi, 耿建翌, 
Subodh GUPTA, 
HA Chonghyun, 하종현, 
Ha Manh Thang, 
M.F. HUSAIN, 
I Nyoman Masriadi, 
Jumaldi Alfi, 
Jitish KALLAT, 
Y.Z. KAMI, 
Bhupen KHAKHAR, 
Bharti KHER, 
Udomsak KRISANAMIS, 
Shigeko KUBOTA, 久保田成子, 
Yayoi KUSAMA, 草間彌生, 
Jane LEE, 
LEE Ufan, 이우환, 
LI Shan, 李山, 
LIU Kuo-sung, 劉國松, 
LIU Wei, 劉煒, 
LIU Wenxi, 劉文西, 
Nalini MALANI, 
Rudi MANTOFANI, 
Farhad MOSHIRI, 
Yoshitomo NARA, 奈良美智, 
Fiona RAE, 
T.V. SANTHOSH, 
Nilima SHEIKH, 
Shahzia SIKANDER, 
K.G. SUBRAMANYAN, 
Agus SUWAGE, 
WANG Guangyi, 王廣義, 
YAN Pei-Ming, 嚴培明, 
YUE Minjun, 岳敏君, 
ZENG Fanzhi, 曾梵志, 
English
art history,  painting,  contemporaneity
2009
448
9780714846316
1
monograph
Introduction
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
Dresden and Leipzig
Post-Feminism
Painting Tomorrow
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