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This is the first substantial publication on the work of British artist Gillian Carnegie. In contemporary painting her work stands apart, quietly, calmly and insistently uncanny, with an emotional tenor unlike anything else in art today.
List of contents
I A Weird Time to be a Painter; II What Images Tell Us; III Between Observation and Experience; IV An Absolute Object; V A Needless Bit of Sensationalism; VI Filling the Space with Miniature Abstractions; Notes; Acknowledgements; Biography; Solo Exhibitions; Group Exhibitions; Other Projects; Public Collections; Bibliography; Index
About the author
Barry Schwabsky is an art critic, art historian and poet. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, New York University, Goldsmiths College (University of London) and Yale University. He has been the art critic for
The Nation since 2005. His essays have appeared in many other publications, including
Flash Art (Milan),
Artforum, the
London Review of Books and
Art in America. His books include
The Widening Circle: Con-sequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art,
Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting and several volumes of poetry.
Summary
This is the first substantial publication on the work of Britishartist Gillian Carnegie. In contemporary painting her work stands apart,quietly, calmly and insistently uncanny, with an emotional tenor unlikeanything else in art today.
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'Gillian Carnegie’s paintings are some of the most hypnotizing reflections on the modern world around; seemingly plain surfaces shimmer with something profoundly mysterious. Barry Schwabsky’s account of the evolution of her work is both wonderfully informative and beautifully written. I unreservedly recommend it.'
