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.
Slow Painting roundly rebuts the notion that painting has been made obsolete by lens-based media or digital developments. On the contrary, Helen Westgeest argues for painting’s relevance as a contemporary medium that is flexible, vibrantly political and endlessly renewing. This masterful, accessible book provides a rallying point for discussions of painting in the twenty-first century. * Lucy Soutter, author of Why Art Photography? (2013) *