“…a handsome, dazzlingly produced art book …Vitamin P is better than a biennial, a convincing show of painting’s continuing ability to reinvent itself.” Vogue
The first in Phaidon’s successful ‘Vitamin’ series, Vitamin P provides a global overview of painting today. Representing the most current concerns and movements in contemporary painting, this striking book investigates the art of 114 of the world’s most talented contemporary painters.
Barry Schwabsky’s excellent opening text presents a critical survey of the evolution of painting since the Modernism of the late 1950s. With thirty-five leading international critics and curators selecting the artists, Vitamin P succeeds in its daunting task of illustrating the global spectrum of a diverse and rich medium.
The artists, both emerging and established painters on the international art scene, are presented in a straightforward, easily accessible A to Z order. The featured painters are represented by a 500-word explanatory text, a short biography and overview of their methods and subject matter, and several pages of beautifully reproduced examples of their work.
This exploration of a long-established, but continually updated medium is an excellent critical resource and reference work for both artists and art lovers.
The 114 included artists are: Tomma Abts, Franz Ackermann, Nader Ahriman, Haluk Akakçe, Brian Alfred, Laylah Ali, Kai Althoff, Francis Alÿs, Ghada Amer, Carole Benzaken, Simone Berti, Peter Bonde, Cecily Brown, Glenn Brown, Jane Callister, Merlin Carpenter, Denis Castellas, Angela de la Cruz, John Currin, Stéphane Dafflon, Ian Davenport, Verne Dawson, Gabriele Di Matteo, Ding Yi, Atul Dodiya, Markus Döbeli, Peter Doig, Dubossarsky & Vinogradov, Marlene Dumas, Cecilia Edefalk, Gia Edzgveradze, Inka Essenhigh, Pia Fries, Bernard Frize, Ellen Gallagher, Tim Gardner, Andrew Grassie, Joanne Greenbaum, Katharina Grosse, Eberhard Havekost, Dan Hays, Arturo Herrera, Federico Herrero, Hiroshi Sugito, Hong Seung-Hye, Gary Hume, IRWIN, Sergej Jensen, Yishai Jusidman, Johannes Kahrs, Ziga Kariz, Bhupen Khakhar, Toba Khedoori, Karen Kilimnik, Carla Klein, Michael Krebber, Udomsak Krisanamis, Jim Lambie, Sean Landers, Michael Lin, Tor-Magnus Lundeby, Michel Majerus, Margherita Manzelli, Fabian Marcaccio, Mona Marzouk, Suzanne McClelland, Lucy McKenzie, Julie Mehretu, Beatriz Milhazes, Yan Pei Ming, Miquel Mont, Sarah Morris, Muntean & Rosenblum, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Caro Niederer, Manuel Ocampo, Chris Ofili, Laura Owens, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Phillips, Bernard Piffaretti, Avery Preesman, Monique Prieto, Rob Pruitt, Mantalina Psoma, Chatchai Puipia, Tal R, Michael Raedecker, Neo Rauch, Daniel Richter, Matthew Ritchie, Peter Rostovsky, Murat Sahinler, Wilhelm Sasnal, Thomas Scheibitz, Adrian Schiess, Daniel Schlier, George Shaw, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Kate Shepherd, James Siena, Dirk Skreber, Miha ?trukelj, Djamel Tatah, JosEToirac, Fred Tomaselli, John Tremblay, Luc Tuymans, Adriana Varejão, Richard Wright, Yek, Lisa Yuskavage, Zhou Tiehai.
- Katrine Claasens
Keywords: David-Krut, Education, International, Painting, review
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