What Is Painting? Representation and Modern Art

Name: What Is Painting? Representation and Modern Art
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ISBN: 9780500281017

ISBN-10: 0500281017

ISBN-13: 9780500281017

Edition: 1999

Authors: Julian Bell

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In this book Julian Bell, himself a painter, confronts the uncertainty and suspicion many people feel about art today. he addresses questions such as what defines paintings, its meaning for the 21st century and the idea of representation.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 5/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Julian Bell has taught art history for many years and is also a practicing painter. He writes widely on art for magazines, including The New York Review of Books.



'What is art?' 'Is that art?'



Images and Marks


Original and image


The imitation of nature


Paintings and marks


Style and substitution


Creation and contemplation



Sight and Knowledge


Portrayal and observation


Painting as model for knowledge


Photography and Realism


Sensation


Light and the observer



Form and Time


Form and bodies


Time and stories


Modernity and history


Modernity and art


Process, impression, sequence


Action and form


Information and performance



Expression


The meanings of expression


Markets and persons


Colour


Mind and spirit


Bodies


Communication



The Word Art


Art and non-art


Art as freedom


Cubism


Abstraction


Fun


Skills



Representation


Levels of representation


Deconstruction


Pictures and theories


Painting now


Picturing painting


Sources and Resources


List of Illustrations


Index