Painting photography painting : selected essays / Carol Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Carol M., author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art criticism.

Art, Modern.

art criticism.

Genre:

Essays.

Art criticism.

Physical Description:

381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2023]

Summary:

"Painting photography painting is the essential first collection of essays by critic and theorist Carol Armstrong, bringing together writings encompassing the many inflection points of her academic work, including French painting, early photography, feminist theory, and the representation of women and gender in the visual arts. In the book's titular essay, Armstrong asks of Ellen Gallagher's 2008 painting An Experiment of Unusual Opportunity, which depicts a barely-visible sea creature created out of ink, graphite, oil, varnish, and variously sliced paper, 'in what sense is this a painting exactly?' This enquiry into the very essence of the medium provides a thread that runs throughout the book's wide-ranging essays and ties together a variety of works on paper 'inscribed, drawn, printed, photographed, and variously pierced and punctured'. Considering these various works, Painting Photography Painting provides a compelling path through Armstrong's decades of writing, weaving together figures from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Cezanne, Ellen Gallagher, Georges Seurat, Julia Margaret Cameron, Tina Modotti, and Diane Arbus in a single, illuminating volume" -- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

The reflexive and the possessive view : thoughts on Kertész, Brandt and the photographic nude

Biology, destiny, photography : difference according to Diane Arbus

Cupid's pencil of light : Julia Margaret Cameron and the maternalization of photography

From Clementina to Käsebier : the photographic attainment of the "lady amateur"

This photography which is not one : in the gray zone with Tina Modotti

Cameraless : from natural illustrations and nature prints to manual and photogenic drawings and other botanographs

Still life set piece

Women on paper

Automatism and agency intertwined : the spectrum of photographic intentionality

Ellen Gallagher : Mythopoetics and materials

Seurat's media : or, a matrix of materialities

Painting photography painting : timelines and medium specificities

Helen Frankenthaler's syzygy : line into color, color into line

This Cézanne which is not one

Ellen Gallagher : ecstatic draught of fishes

Brandt's haptic eye : perspective of nudes

Credits.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781913620974

1913620972

OCLC:

1374561047