ART
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An invaluable primer on the state of painting today
Painting Now Suzanne Hudson Suzanne Hudson’s original survey offers a critical snapshot of more than 200 artists from around the world who are defining the painterly ideas and aesthetics of our time. She starts by mapping the history of painting in the modern and postmodern eras, and then goes on to explore in six chapters the themes of appropriation, attitude, production and distribution, the body, painting about painting, and painters who introduce performance, installation and textiles into their work to critique painting itself.
Suzanne Hudson is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, University of Southern California. Her writing appears in various art historical journals, and she is the author of three other books.
230 illustrations 28.0 x 21.0cm 216pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 294055 August £24.95
‘Eloquent and erudite … essential reading’ Leisure Painting
Second edition
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An authoritative survey of the diverse, dazzling and compelling art of Oceania
Oceanic Art Nicholas Thomas Nicholas Thomas’s survey of Oceania’s art has been revised to include a new chapter on globalization and contemporary art. It shows how each region is characterized by certain art forms and practices – among them Maori ancestral carvings, rituals of exchange and warfare in the Solomon Islands, Polynesian barkcloth – while also being shaped by influences from within the Pacific and beyond. The dynamism and diversity of Oceanic art are highlighted by the works accompanying the text.
Nicholas Thomas is the author of Islanders, which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize. He is also Professor of Historical Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
186 illustrations 21.0 x 15.0cm 224pp paperback ISBN 978 0 500 204405 September £12.95
‘Excellent … exceptional and wide-ranging’ Pacific Arts