Thomas Godfrey

Tony Godfrey

A clear, extensive, concise and informative account of this fascinating phenomenon.

Conceptual Art

Story of Contemporary Art

Examines the developments in the styles, techniques, and imagery of European and American painters such as Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Susan Rothenberg

Painting in the 1980s

The New Image

Painting Today is a comprehensive overview of the last 30 years of painting, presenting work by celebrated figures like Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch alongside emerging artists like Jumaldi Alfi and Ingrid Calame. Photo-realism, landscape, still-life, portraiture, neo-expressionism, installation painting and the Leipzig school are just some of the areas of this thriving art medium explored by Tony Godfrey. Organized by themes, Painting Today showcases the broad range of styles, materials and methods that comprise contemporary painting. Insightful and accessible, Painting Today?s approach will appeal to scholars and newcomers to the subject alike.

Painting Today

Matthew Collings

Luke Frost

Luke Frost is the sixth artist to emerge from the Tate St Ives residence programme at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. An abstract painter, much of his work consists of solid blocks of colour, built up layers with the surface left smooth.

Paintings in Five Dimensions

Photo&hyphen;realism, abstraction, portraiture, installation painting, neo&hyphen;expressionism and the Leipzig School are just some of the areas of this thriving medium explored in Painting Today. This comprehensive survey of contemporary painting presents the broad range of styles, materials and methods that comprise the artform, extending the tradition of Phaidon’s trail–blazing Art Today. Since the proclaimed "death of painting" in 1968, artists around the globe have nevertheless continued to expand its imagery, techniques and meanings, and in over 500 illustrations this book presents the work of both famous and emergent painters active around the world. Tony Godfrey presents a lively and authoritative view of the vast range of possibilities that painting today encompasses.

Maria Chevska

Hlne Cixous

This is the first monograph on the artist Maria Chevska. Like her work this book offers different approaches to its subjects: an essay by the renowned critic and art historian Tony Godfrey considers the artist's oeuvre from its painterly beginnings to its 'multimedia' present. Godfrey locates Chevska's practice at the nexus of modernism and its elimination. With a particular focus on her use of material and text the essay reveals an underlying conflict that lies at the heart of Chevska's work which continuously moves from the very small to the very large, from the sensual to the rough, from the light to the dark.

The Art of Maria Chevska

Vera's Room

An instant classic--a lively new introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to Marina Abramovi&ć's performance art to today's biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions. Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ask, "What does it mean?" "Is it really art?" and "Why does it cost so much?" These are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his magisterial The Story of Art. Contemporary art seems totally unlike what came before it, departing from the road map supplied by Raphael, Dürer, Rembrandt, and other European masters. In The Story of Contemporary Art, Tony Godfrey picks up where Gombrich left off, offering a lively introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to Marina Abramovi&ć's performance art to today's biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions. Godfrey, a curator and writer on contemporary art, chronicles important developments in pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, installation art, performance art, and beyond.

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