Bøker av Isabelle Graw

In response to recent developments in pictorial practice and critical discourse, Painting beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-medium Condition seeks new ways to approach and historicize the question of the medium. Reaching back to the earliest theoretical and institutional definitions of painting, this book—based on a conference at Harvard University in 2013—focuses on the changing role of materiality in establishing painting as the privileged practice, discourse, and institution of modernity. Myriad conceptions of the medium and its specificity are explored by an international group of scholars, critics, and artists. Painting beyond Itself is a forum for rich historical, theoretical, and practice-grounded conversation.ContributorsCarol Armstrong, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Sabeth Buchmann, René Démoris, Isabelle Graw, David Joselit, Jutta Koether, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Julie Mehretu, Matt Saunders, Amy SillmanInstitut für Kunstkritik Series

This is the first monograph on the work of Michele Abeles (b. 1977), an artist based in New York who works primarily with photographic imagery. Through numerous colour images and exhibition views, the book traces Abele's prolific and diverse output over the last seven years. An extensive interview with the art critic Isabelle Graw offers new and extended insights into the artist's thinking and methodology. Abeles's works pursue a range of conceptual and compositional questions - from the idea of spatial depth in photography and painting, to the status of the female body as a 'readymade' armature, to the relationship between different methods of compressing and conveying information (visual and non-visual, digital and analogue). Please note: The book cover image is all white, with raised design.