In this collection of critical essays the well-known critic Barry Schwabsky reexamines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of "high modernism" remain consequential to it, through tensions among representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. With the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner, Schwabsky also studies the work of emerging artists who also continue to examine modernism's legacies.

The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Artists and their Critics)

Arts & Photography

Schwabsky, Barry

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

In this collection of critical essays the well-known critic Barry Schwabsky reexamines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of "high modernism" remain consequential to it, through tensions among representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. With the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner, Schwabsky also studies the work of emerging artists who also continue to examine modernism's legacies.

New York City-based artist Mel Bochner (born 1940) is one of the founders of Conceptual and installation art in America. Monoprints is, surprisingly, the first book devoted solely to this important artist’s experimental printed works, even though Bochner has been producing text-based works for over 40 years. In the last 18 years, Bochner has produced a remarkable body of printed works in collaboration with Two Palms studio in New York, and Monoprints focuses on the often large-scale and incredibly physical text-based works made using the studio’s industrial hydraulic press. The book is illustrated with 34 full-color reproductions and includes an essay by critic Barry Schwabsky, as well as an interview by Schwabsky with Bochner, in which the artist explains the genesis and evolution of this central part of his art-making activities.

Mel Bochner: Monoprints: Words, Words, Words...

Bochner, Mel

Individual Artists

Two Palms, NY

Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting

This highly illustrated overview of the state of painting documents concerns and ideas among contemporary painters. Often moving beyond the traditional image associated with this medium, this survey illustrates the richness, eclecticism, dynamism and contemporaneity of painting.

Phaidon Press

The first volume of Vitamin P, published in 2002, inaugurated a vibrant period for painting. Since its publication, a whole new generation of painters has emerged, some inspired by the artists who appeared in that book, others taking cues from new sources. Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting introduces this new wave of painters to the world. The vast medium of painting continues to be a central pillar of artistic practice, and Vitamin P2 presents the outstanding artists who are currently engaging with and pushing the boundaries of the medium. Over 80 international critics, artists and curators have nominated the 115 artists who have made a fresh, unique or innovative contribution to recent painting. All of the artists in Vitamin P2 have recently emerged onto the international scene, and none appeared in the first Vitamin P. An introduction by Barry Schwabsky, who also wrote the introduction for Vitamin P, provides a broad overview of recent developments in the medium while also looking towards its future.

Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting

Renowned for his vivid, larger&amp;hyphen;than&amp;hyphen;life portraits, Alex Katz is a towering figure in contemporary painting. His work can be found in institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA, LACMA, and the National Portrait Gallery.
The revised and expanded edition of Phaidon’s landmark survey is the most up&amp;hyphen;to&amp;hyphen;date overview of Katz’s prolific 50&amp;hyphen;year career. Featuring more than 300 gorgeous reproductions of key works, Alex Katz devotes ample space to the artist’s lush portraits while also including his landscapes, sculptures, and painted books. Rounding out the book’s content are writings from the artist himself; contributions from Robert Storr, Iwona Blazwick, Carter Ratcliff; and a new essay by Barry Schwabsky.

Alex Katz: Revised & expanded edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

RATCLIFF, Carter

Blazwick, Iwona

STORR, Robert

A dynamic overview of the best new contemporary painting from around the world.
The first volume of Vitamin P, published in 2002, inaugurated a vibrant period for painting. Since its publication, a whole new generation of painters has emerged, some inspired by the artists who appeared in that book, others taking cues from new sources. Vitamin P2 introduces this new wave of painters to the world.
The vast medium of painting continues to be a central pillar of artistic practice, and Vitamin P2 presents the outstanding artists who are currently engaging with and pushing the boundaries of the medium. Over 80 international critics, artists and curators have nominated the 115 artists who have made a fresh, unique or innovative contribution to recent painting. All of the artists in Vitamin P2 have recently emerged onto the international scene, and none appeared in the first Vitamin P.
An introduction by Barry Schwabsky, who also wrote the introduction for Vitamin P, provides a broad overview of recent developments in the medium while also looking towards its future.

Vitamin P2

Robecchi, Michele

The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence sculpture and installation art
Jessica Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in social and cultural space - using found objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colours. This revised, updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary sculpture and painting revolve today.

Jessica Stockholder: Contemporary Artists series (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

TILLMAN, Lynne

Cooke, Lynne

Celant, Germano

Vitamine P3: NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES EN PEINTURE

PHAIDON FRANCE

The first true monograph on the work of celebrated French conceptual artist and sculptor Bernar Venet 
Bernar Venet is one of France's most celebrated living artists. Having emerged from the late 1960s avant-garde scene in New York, Venet developed a personal aesthetic based on an innovative use of mathematics and science, where control, chance, and chaos converge to form a fine equilibrium while investigating their relationship with the environment. Conversant in many media, Venet is mostly known for his monumental outdoor sculptures in major cities worldwide and, in fall 19, his Arc Majeur is due for completion at a site in Belgium - at almost 200 feet in height (60 metres), Venet's sculpture will be taller than New York's Statue of Liberty.

Bernar Venet (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

LILLEY, CLARE

Derieux, Florence

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The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Artists and their Critics)

The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Artists and their Critics)

Mel Bochner: Monoprints: Words, Words, Words...

Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting

Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting

Alex Katz: Revised & expanded edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Vitamin P2

Jessica Stockholder: Contemporary Artists series (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Vitamine P3: NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES EN PEINTURE

Bernar Venet (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)