Ave Gratia Plena: On Painting after Postmodernism

Six decades having passed since Andy Warhol casually announced that art is dead, the story of modernism and postmodernism is at an end, and so, it would seem, is the story of art history. What could possibly succeed postmodernism? The only logical thing for an artist to do is what artists used to do. The ancestral craft of painting will have to be revived, which is what many artists have begun to do already, notwithstanding the danger that it may be an artificial resuscitation of an historically and spiritually exhausted tradition. As one such artist, Benjamin Patterson argues in this lucid and persuasive book that the craft of painting can become a thing of world-historical significance again. He conducts the reader through an intellectual history of the painter's craft, from its medieval roots to its modern demise. The theory of art is explored both in depth and in breadth, from its beginnings in classical philosophy and Renaissance treatises to its bitter end in phenomenology and post-structuralism.

Author: Benjamin F. Patterson

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: 44136

Number of Pages: 428 pages

Binding: Art

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ISBN-13: 9798671713343