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Above and beyond the volume's intelligence and visual sumptuousness, I believe Landscape Painting Now could play a significant role in our conversations about contemporary painting and its meaning.--Peter Malone Hyperallergic With more than four hundred color reproductions, the book is beautifully illustrated and a fitting testament to the artists contained within.--Andrew L. Shea New Criterion Landscape Painting Now affords a generous window into the very best of contemporary landscape painting.--Midwest Book Review Landscape Painting Now features more than 80 contemporary artists who hail from 25 different countries to provide an inclusive and nuanced view.--Sara Barnes My Modern Met The coffee-table book Landscape Painting Now: like having a country house, but without the Lyme risk.--New York Magazine It's one of those books that you're sure to see in painters' studios for years to come.--Tyler Green Modern Art Notes Podcast Leading art critic Barry Schwabsky penned this colorful ode to the enduring appeal of landscape painting. Organized into six chapters, the book offers a leisurely read with insightful commentary on some 80 contemporary artists, both established and emerging, from Cecily Brown's sensual scenes and David Hockney's radiant depictions of the English countryside to Julie Mehretu's cartographic abstractions.--Galerie Deeply entrenched in a long and storied history, contemporary landscape artists also contend with the future--a future saddled with global warming and environmental catastrophe, as well as our increasingly virtual spaces. Maybe the genre is more vital now than it every has been--or that's what is seems like between the covers of Landscape Painting Now.--Artspace Ideal for scholars and art lovers, this ambitious work provides an invaluable guide to this ubiquitous subject.--The Arts Society Half a century ago, artists focused more on soup cans and abstractions than on the scenes outside their studios. Landscape Painting Now, edited by Todd Bradway, shows how much things have changed.--Wall Street Journal In an age where anxieties about our environmental future dominate headlines, portrayals of the natural world in paintings are especially relevant today - and the genre is thriving. Pioneering in taking a global approach, this book - edited by artist Todd Bradway, with contributions from leading academic arts writers - offers the first comprehensive overview of contemporary landscape painting.--Arts Society

Above and beyond the volume's intelligence and visual sumptuousness, I believe Landscape Painting Now could play a significant role in our conversations about contemporary painting and its meaning.--Peter Malone Hyperallergic Half a century ago, artists focused more on soup cans and abstractions than on the scenes outside their studios. Landscape Painting Now, edited by Todd Bradway, shows how much things have changed.--Peter Saenger Wall Street Journal

Above and beyond the volume's intelligence and visual sumptuousness, I believe Landscape Painting Now could play a significant role in our conversations about contemporary painting and its meaning.--Peter Malone Hyperallergic

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