What Is Painting? Representation and Modern Art

Title: What Is Painting? Representation and Modern ArtAuthor: Bell, JulianPublisher: Thames & HudsonBinding: PaperbackPages: 258Dimensions: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60dProduct Weight: 0.6 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9780500281017What is art? Is that art? At the end of the twentieth century, these questions continue to provoke and to bedevil discussion. The uncertainty that prompts them can be productive for artists, who may thrive on such a state of tension. Yet uncertainty can also shade into the suspiciousness with which many people approach the work of those artists. Reasonable questions deserve articulate answers, and Julian Bell provides them in this lucid, straightforward, and often challenging book. In the process he offers an incisive guide to artistic thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to the complexities of contemporary theory. Among the many fields of activity covered by the word art, Bell, himself a painter, focuses on flat things--the paintings that