{"title":"Forging reality: Surface and reductionism in the work of Dick Bengtsson","authors":"S. Willems","doi":"10.1386/jcp_00002_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp_00002_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the work of the late Swedish painter Dick Bengtsson. It is conceived in an attempt to locate Bengtsson’s complex use of surface beyond the discourse of ‘sign games’ that has largely surrounded his practice to date. In addressing the limitations\u0000 of a postmodern agenda concerned with Bengtsson’s prowess as a particular type of conceptual artist, this article explores his use of materials within individual artworks to elucidate less developed dimensions within his production.","PeriodicalId":40089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Painting","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48052168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clyde Hopkins: Abstraction as experience","authors":"J. Key","doi":"10.1386/jcp_00007_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp_00007_1","url":null,"abstract":"Hopkins’ painterly abstraction reflects on a universe of disordering contingencies in everyday experience, questioning how painting can refer to such qualities of experience without engaging in representation. The immediate act of placing paint on the canvas extends to metaphorical\u0000 concerns with process: how to maintain that sensation of immediacy if repetitions occur within a sequence of gestural responses. Hopkins’ work adopts different approaches at different stages; degrees of immediacy remain a consideration while attachment to a variety of motifs develops.\u0000 Paintings remain continuously open to change as more reflexive approaches to the ironies of maintaining immediacy in re-presentation emerge. Resources are both visual and philosophical: the questioning of logic with ‘associationism’ found in the writings of David Hume and influencing\u0000 Lawrence Sterne, a fascination with Spanish painting and its influence on Robert Motherwell, who was in turn influenced by A. N. Whitehead.","PeriodicalId":40089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Painting","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48078057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The context of medium specificity: From Riegl to Greenberg","authors":"T. Palin","doi":"10.1386/jcp_00003_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp_00003_1","url":null,"abstract":"By the mid-1960s the notion of medium specificity had come to define that which was most insular and protectionist about painting, with the idea of medium specificity entirely synonymous with the formalist criticism of Clement Greenberg. As such, the richness of the term, and its historical\u0000 situatedness, was lost behind a particular defence of the virtues of modernist painting. This article attempts to draw out the history and nuances of medium specificity: to trace its development within an extended body of speculation ‐ commonly termed formalist ‐ in order to\u0000 re-open a discussion, too often sidestepped within contemporary discourse, as to the relationship that exists between the work of art and that which the work of art can claim to bear witness to.","PeriodicalId":40089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Painting","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43389611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods of Modern Construction","authors":"B. Harland","doi":"10.1386/jcp_00001_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp_00001_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Painting","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45793553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Painting Beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-Medium Condition, Isabella Graw and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (eds) (2016)","authors":"Alison Green","doi":"10.1386/jcp_00006_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp_00006_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Painting Beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-Medium Condition, Isabella Graw and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (eds) (2016)Berlin: Sternberg Press, 292 pp.,ISBN 978-3-95679-007-2, p/bk, £13.95","PeriodicalId":40089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Painting","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48838769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Painting as ReModel","authors":"Daniel Sturgis, L. Lisbon, Mick Finch","doi":"10.1386/JCP.5.1.3_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCP.5.1.3_2","url":null,"abstract":"Yve-Alain Bois’ Painting as Model was first published in 1993 and it still stands as one of the most important collection of essays, looking at painting as both a conceptual and material enquiry. The aim of this issue of the Journal of Contemporary Painting is to revisit Painting as Model from a contemporary perspective so as to examine its ongoing impact. To do this we have also translated into English key texts by Bois that throw new light on the context of his thinking. Also translated here, for the first time in English, is Hubert Damisch’s chapter, La Peinture est un vrai trois, from his 1984 book Fenetre jaune cadmium. Damisch’s book can be considered as the crucial contextual background to Bois’ methodology, as he explored in the article that gave Painitng as Model its title. We believe that the historical material provided here will give greater insight into Bois’ work. \u0000 \u0000Introduction co-written with Laura Lisbon and Dan Sturgis for an edition of the Journal of Contemporary Painting that revisits Yves-Alain Bois' Painting as Model, published in the 1990s that was an iconic text of the period that is still relevant today. \u0000 \u0000Mick Finch, Laura Lisbon and Dan Sturgis, co-edited this issue of the Journal.","PeriodicalId":40089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Painting","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JCP.5.1.3_2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49264717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Description and resistance: On Yve-Alain Bois’s Painting as Model","authors":"Lisa Florman","doi":"10.1386/JCP.5.1.83_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JCP.5.1.83_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Painting","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44523039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exhibition Reviews","authors":"Joanne Morra, Ella S. Mills","doi":"10.1386/jcp.5.1.195_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp.5.1.195_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Painting","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49241408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}