Critical perspectives on contemporary painting : hybridity, hegemony, historicism /

Critical perspectives on contemporary painting : hybridity, hegemony, historicism / edited by Jonathan Harris - Liverpool : Liverpool University, [2003] - 271 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm - Tate Liverpool Critical Forum ; v. 6 .

Essays based on an annual conference

This collection of essays, along with artwork contributions from several contemporary artists, examines and assesses the status of paining within global contemporary art. The meaning and value of "painting" as both a category and a set of practices is analysed by internationally reknown art critics, historians and theorists including Griselda Pollock and Alison Rowley, Katya Garcia Anton, David Green, and Jonathan Harris.

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Painting, Modern--20th century--Congresses
Painting & paintings
History of art
Theory of art