Books by Barry Schwabsky
“There are many books that want to take on painting, which is a very visible and collectible medium, but few do so as consistently as the Vitamin P series. It is particularly appealing to approach painting in this manner, an ongoing series with a great selection of artists overseen by the art critic Barry Schwabsky. These are artists regarded very highly across a range of art world practitioners, not all as famous as Chuck Close or Marlene Dumas, but nonetheless consistently regarded as important painters of their generation, roughly from the 1970s onwards.” Read more...
The best books on Figurative Painting Today
Julien Delagrange, Artists & Art Critic
Interviews where books by Barry Schwabsky were recommended
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Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism
by B. H. D. Buchloch, David Joselit, Hal Foster & Rosalind E. Krauss -
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Painting Today
by Tony Godfrey -
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Painting (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
by Terry R. Myers -
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Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting
by Barry Schwabsky -
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Picturing People: The New State of the Art
by Charlotte Mullins
The best books on Figurative Painting Today, recommended by Julien Delagrange
The best books on Figurative Painting Today, recommended by Julien Delagrange
Collectors and curators have been clamouring for figurative art in recent years, as a generation of painters take a more traditional, representational approach to addressing major cultural themes in their work. But is figurative painting today merely a reactionary impulse, a kind of nostalgia for art that preceded modernism, postmodernism and the fragmentation in art-making that was ushered in by conceptual art? There is much more to it than that, argues painter and art historian Julien Delagrange.
