Articles and Books

A quite random list of books or articles on painting. Please send suggestions of what you are reading at the moment !

Mali Morris
Sam Cornish Space through Colour, Colour through Space

Neo-Expressionism: The 80s Figurative Painting in West Germany in 1980s
Exhibition Catalogue, Staedel Museum Frankfurt, 2015.

Bracey, A. (2018), ‘Parasitical paintings’, Journal of Contemporary Painting, 4:2, pp. 325–44.

DOUGLAS Crimp: End of Painting

Foucault: Manet and the Object of Painting

Linda Nochlin ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ , Art News.1971(2015).

Mark Godfrey ‘Statements of Intent’, Artforum, April 2014

Isabelle Graw: The Love of Painting.‘Painting in a Different Light: 
A Conversation with Jutta Koether about Joan Mitchell

DAVID JOSELIT ‘Painting Beside Itself’, October, 130, Fall 2009, pp. 125–134.

Simon O’Sullivan 
From Stuttering and Stammering to the Diagram: Deleuze, Bacon and Contemporary Art Practice Link

Deleuze, Gilles (2003) Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, trans. Daniel W. Smith, London: Continuum.
Gilles Deleuze Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

Frances Guerin ‘The Grey Space Between: Gerhard Richter’s 18.Oktober 1977’, in Guerin, Frances., and Roger. Hallas. The Image and the Witness : Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture. Nonfictions. London: Wallflower, 2007.

Dieter Roelstraete
The Way of the Shovel: On the Archeological Imaginary in Art

Bal, Mieke. Reading Rembrandt. Amsterdam Academic Archive. 2006.
Online through the library

Clark, T. J. The Sight of Death : An Experiment in Art Writing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Baudelaire, Charles,The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. 2nd ed. Art & Letters. London: Phaidon, 1995.
Link

Shiff, Richard. Doubt. Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts. New York: Routledge, 2008, 61.

Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. London: Penguin Books, 2008.
Chapter 8: Resistance and Ambiguity  

Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s chapter Cezanne’s Doubt. .Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Sense and Non-Sense. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1964.

Ives Alain Bois:
Painting: The Task of Mourning

JOHN KULVICKI and BENCE NANAY
ART MADE FOR PICTURES

Barry Schwabsky
Object or Project, Reflections on the Ontology of Painting

Barry Schwabsky
Picturehood is Powerful

Laura Hoptman
Fin de Siècle (Elizabeth Peyton)

ANNIE BOURNEUF
“Radically Uncolorful Painting”: Walter Benjamin and the Problem of Cubism

Albert Camus
Create Dangerously

 Lyotard’s discussion of the sublime in Barnett Newman’s work. Newman speaks of the absence of subject matter and  ‘presence’ of man. See the chapter ‘ Newman: The Instant’ in Jean-Francois Lyotard The Inhuman: Reflections on Time

Barrett, E. & Bolt, B., 2007. Practice as Research Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry. London, New York: I.B. Tauris.

Branden W. Joseph ‘White on White’, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 90-121

Painting Modern Life. Ralph Rugoff