Museum Tusculanum Press publishes Contemporary Painting in Context

Edited by Anne Ring Petersen with Mikkel Bogh, Hans Dam Christensen and Peter Nørgaard Larsen

http://www.mtp.dk

Contributors: Jonathan Harris, Peter Weibel, Barry Schwabsky, Stephen Melville, Katharina Grosse, Anne Ring Petersen, Katy Deepwell, Rune Gade, Gitte Ørskou, Chin-Tao Wu

Museum Tusculanum Press
2010 ∙ 220 pp. ∙ Illustrated ∙ 16 x 24 cm
ISBN 978 87 635 2597 8
Series: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Art History Project
27.00 EURO ∙ DKK 198 ∙ 34 USD
Price at http://www.mtp.dk 21 EURO ∙ DKK 158 ∙ 27 USD

CONTENTS

Anne Ring Petersen
Introduction

PART ONE: PAINTING IN THE COMMON CULTURE
Jonathan Harris
‘Contemporary’, ‘Common’, ‘Context’, ‘Criticism’: Painting after the End of Postmodernism

Peter Weibel
Pittura/Immedia: Painting in the Nineties between Mediated Visuality and Visuality in Context

PART TWO: RETHINKING THE ONTOLOGY OF PAINTING
Barry Schwabsky
Object or Project? A Critic’s Reflections on the Ontology of Painting

Stephen Melville
Painting: Ontology and Experience

PART THREE: THE EXPANDED FIELD
Katharina Grosse
The Poise of the Head und die anderen folgen

Anne Ring Petersen
Painting Spaces

PART FOUR: PAINTING AND THE QUESTION OF GENDER-SPECIFICITY
Katy Deepwell
Claims for a Feminist Politics in Painting

Rune Gade
Matter and Meaning: ‘The Slime of Painting’

PART FIVE: PAINTING, INSTITUTIONS, MARKET
Gitte Ørskou
The Longing for Order: Painting as the Gatekeeper of Harmony

Chin-tao Wu
YBA Saatchi? – from Shark Sensation to Pastoral Painting

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