Contemporary Practice After Modernist Painting

This book offers a critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of the medium of painting over the last 60 years, providing a historical survey. Focusing specifically on painting rather than art more broadly, After Modernist Painting delivers a timely exploration of a persistent and protean medium.

Taking Clement Greenberg's "Modernist Painting" as its starting point, the book examines certain key developments, including the relationship of painting to Conceptual Art and Minimalism, the pronouncement of painting's alleged death, its response to Installation Art's foregrounding of site, how painting both images and imagines the digital, and how it continues to embody a particular set of ideas and responses to the world.

Revised and expanded to reflect advancements in the field since the first edition's publication in 2013, After Modernist Painting addresses a range of global artists and painting practices – from the Dansaekhwa art movement in South Korea to the Conceptualism of Geta Bratescu in 1970s Romania. The book is essential reading for students enrolled in fine arts painting courses, and it serves as an invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the themes and issues that have pertained to painting within the context of postmodernism and contemporary artistic practice. Additionally, it provides a valuable starting point for other, more specialized histories of particular painters.

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