In response to recent developments in pictorial practice and critical
discourse, Painting beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-medium
Condition seeks new ways to approach and historicize the question of
the medium. Reaching back to the earliest theoretical and institutional
definitions of painting, this book--based on a conference at Harvard
University in 2013--focuses on the changing role of materiality in
establishing painting as the privileged practice, discourse, and
institution of modernity. Myriad conceptions of the medium and its
specificity are explored by an international group of scholars, critics,
and artists. Painting beyond Itself is a forum for rich historical,
theoretical, and practice-grounded conversation.
**Contributors
**Carol Armstrong, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Sabeth Buchmann, René
Démoris, Isabelle Graw, David Joselit, Jutta Koether, Ewa
Lajer-Burcharth, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Julie Mehretu, Matt Saunders,
Amy Sillman
Institut für Kunstkritik Series