Slow Painting: Contemplation and Critique in the Digital Age

The abundance of images in our everyday lives-and the speed at which they are consumed-seems to have...
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Author: Helen Westgeest
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Language: English
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Slow Painting: Contemplation and Critique in the Digital Age by Westgeest, Helen

Slow Painting: Contemplation and Critique in the Digital Age

¥16,199

Slow Painting: Contemplation and Critique in the Digital Age

¥16,199
Author: Helen Westgeest
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The abundance of images in our everyday lives-and the speed at which they are consumed-seems to have left us unable to critique them. To rectify this situation, artists such as Daniel Richter, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Artur Zmijewski have demonstrated that painting is brilliantly equipped to produce 'slow images' that enable, encourage and reward reflection. In this book, Helen Westgeest attempts to understand how various forms of slow painting can be used as tools to interrogate the visual mediations we encounter daily.

Painting was expected to disappear in the digital age but, through interactive painting performances and painting-like manipulated photographs and videos, Westgeest shows how photography, video and new media art have themselves developed the visual strategies that painting had already mastered. Moreover, the fleeting nature of digital mass media appears to have unlocked a desire for more physically stable and enduring pictures, like paintings. Slow Painting charts how, in a world where the constant quest for speed can leave us exhausted, the appeal of this 'slower medium' has only grown.

Author: Helen Westgeest
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 05/19/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781350283572

About the Author
Helen Westgeest is Associate Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History and Photography Theory at Leiden University, The Netherlands., and worked as field editor for photography at caa.reviews. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as two monographs and two edited collections. Her research interests are how the medium produces meaning in the visual arts, contemporary art, the theory of photography, and video art and artistic interactions between the East and West.

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