1st Edition

Weak Painting After Modernism Material Strategies 1968-1978

By Craig Staff Copyright 2024
130 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with. In so doing, a separate set of possibilities for painting gradually began to emerge. The salient debates and practices that collectively worked to... Read more
Introduction  1. The Slow Crepuscle of Modernity  2. Painting into Sculpture  3. Any Kind of Fabric  4. Receptor Surfaces  5. Minimum Security Painting  6. Pluralism of a Kind

Biography

Craig Staff is Reader in Fine Art and MA Fine Art Programme Leader at the University of Northampton, UK.