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Painting: (Documents of Contemporary Art)
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That brings us to the next in your selection of figurative painting books, Painting, part of the Documents of Contemporary Art by
Whitechapel Gallery.
It’s a very eclectic collection of essays, journal articles and
catalogue entries which starts and ends with a quote from Delacroix
(whose
Journals
we have featured
elsewhere on the site)
:
‘What moves men of genius or rather what inspires their work is not new
ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been
said is still not enough.’
So apt! I love that one-liner. In a way, this book sets out to say what has already been said! So the
opening and closing of the book are like an inside joke by Myers. What
has been said about ourselves but also about what has been said about
the arts. In order to say something new, one needs to know what has
already been said. This is also chronologically set out, going through
the most important essays, interviews and other writings about art by
artists and the most respected art critics in their day. Once again you
can really feel yourself transported to their time as you read this,
decade by decade.
So we start with the ‘end of painting’text by Douglas Crimp, which is a famous critique from the early
twentieth century that you can feel is also very present throughout our
prior selections, Painting Today and Art Since 1900.
In fact, it seems to be a question we cannot stop asking ourselves,
whether painting is dead or not. It also features here, and in the
introduction of Vitamin P2, Picturing People and also in my introduction to Contemporary Art Issue.
This entire notion of cycles of rebirth of painting is a recurring
notion, because in fact it’s not really a cycle so much as an historical
continuum of reinvention. A characteristic of art of every period since
we have been speaking about art in historical terms, right up to other
postmodern art movements is that they are all reinventions of art
itself. Painting has been undergoing the same process, but interestingly
from my perspective, it has a much longer tradition than more novel
forms of expression. However its longevity does not mean that it hasn’t
been reinventing itself. On the contrary, it has been compelled to do so
with even greater regularity, right into our present moment!
One of my favourite entries was
Marlene Dumas
, who is on the record as having said ‘Painting is a dialogue with other painters.’
This book is full of examples of
painters and artists literally in dialogue with one another. There are
some great conversations,
Vija Clemins
with
Chuck Close
,
Svetlana Alpers
with
Matthew Collings
and even
Gerhard Richter
in conversation with the art historian Buchloh, one of the co-authors of Art Since 1900,
to name a few incredibly rich dialogues. Dumas in particular is someone
who really proclaims this empowerment of the artist in the debates on
contemporary art. She writes her own catalogue texts for exhibitions,
something I admire and hope to do as well over the years. Many artists
can be a bit distant when it comes to talking about their own work and
art in general, as if it’s not something they should talk about, or a
task to be left to others. It’s exactly something artists should talk
about and Contemporary Art Issue wishes to do the same, to re-empower the artist in these debates about the art of our time. Therefore books like Documents on Contemporary Art are extremely valuable; I think vital. These texts are canonical, but
might otherwise have been lost as magazine clippings from the likes of
Artforum
or
show catalogues. Here again, we see the importance of their
reproduction in book form, documenting art and accumulating into a
collective art history.
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