Writing after Art

Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists

Richard Shiff

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David Zwirner
14 July 2023

Theory of art

In his engaging and penetrating observations of major modern and contemporary visual art, Shiff has written about an impressive range of artists, including Willem de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley, and Peter Saul. A leading scholar and powerful voice, Shiff's insight into prominent artistic practices spans generation, place, and approach, as seen in this considered selection of essays on twenty-seven artists.

These writings first appeared in exhibition catalogues for institutions including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and Tate Modern. Shiff supplements his unquestionable fluency in art history with insights cultivated from his readings in philosophy, phenomenology, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, among other fields. Shiff's writing-conceptually rich, meditative, and enjoyable to read-is attuned to the nuances of artistic style and technique, drawing out art's social implications not merely from broad histories but also directly from artists' mark making and technical gestures. Actively engaged as a viewer and a writer, Shiff has transformed the act of looking at art into contemplative and captivating writing.

Writing After Art includes essays on Georg Baselitz, Mark Bradford, Georges Braque, Jim Campbell, Chuck Close, Willem de Kooning, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Dan Flavin, Suzan Frecon, Lucian Freud, Ellen Gallagher, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Julie Mehretu, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley, Peter Saul, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Jack Whitten, and Zeng Fanzhi.

By: Richard Shiff
Imprint: David Zwirner
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 980g
ISBN: 9781644230480
ISBN 10: 1644230488
Pages: 696
Publication Date: 14 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews for Writing after Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists

Recent Press on Richard Schiff: Overall, Doubt is a major contribution, both to art history and to the history of art history. Schiff's empathy with art and artists, his subtle and intricate understanding of how thought and making are intertwined, means that it could be a contribution to contemporary practice as well. --Robert Linsley CAA Reviews Richard Shiff's Between Sense and De Kooning is a tour de force. But of what precisely? It's a category of art writing for which there is no genre, like De Kooning famously said of Duchamp, he's a movement of one! --Jonathan Fineberg, author of Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being