Weak Painting After Modernism

Material Strategies 1968-1978

Craig Staff (University of Northampton)

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English

Routledge
01 September 2023

Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; Painting & paintings

Series: Routledge Research in Art History

"This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with. In so doing, a separate set of possibilities for painting gradually began to emerge.

The salient debates and practices that collectively worked to establish such a response are approached through the philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s idea of pensiero debole or so-called weak thought. To this end, the proposed study both identifies and seeks to examine a type of ""weak"" painting which, like Vattimo’s idea, took as its critical point of departure “the exhaustion – but not the vanishing – of the project of modernism (the belief in reason, progress, history, the nation-state, etc.).” Craig Staff explores particular instances wherein artists sought to extend the parameters of the object beyond what had been called into question, namely the proclivity for modernist painting’s ""strength"" to be understood as denoting, amongst other things, a perceived set of universal essences.

This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, fine art, cultural studies, critical theory, curatorial studies and philosophy."

By: Craig Staff (University of Northampton)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781032059709
ISBN 10: 1032059702
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
Pages: 122
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Craig Staff is Reader in Fine Art and MA Fine Art Programme Leader at the University of Northampton, UK.