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Author:   Bob Nickas
Publisher:   Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:   Phaidon Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 25.00cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 29.00cm
Weight:   2.400kg
ISBN:  

9780714849331

ISBN 10:   0714849332
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   10 October 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Persistence of Abstraction Chapter 1: Hybrid Pictures (Kristin Baker, Lisa Beck, Alex Brown, Jules de Balincourt, Tomory Dodge, Jacob Feige, Chris Finley, Wayne Gonzalez, Alex Hay, Carrie Moyer, Elizabeth Neel, David Ratcliff, Wilhelm Sasnal, Chris Vassell) Chapter 2: Rhythm and Opticality (Karin Davie, Philippe Decrauzat, Xylor Jane, David Malek, Anja Schwoerer, James Siena, Esther Stocker, Philip Taaffe, John Tremblay, Dan Walsh, Chuck Webster) Chapter 3: Colour and Structure (Mike Cloud, Joanne Greenbaum, Mary Heilmann, Daniel Hesidence, Alison Miller, Odili Donald Odita, Ann Pibal, Bernd Ribbeck, Ruth Root, Alan Uglow, Stanley Whitney, Jens Wolf) Chapter 4: Found/Eccentric Abstraction (John Armleder, Richard Aldrich, Monika Baer, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Francis Baudevin, Daan Van Golden, Chris Johanson, Tony Just, Marta Marce, Monique Prieto, Alex Ross, Amy Sillman) Chapter 5: Form, Space and Scale (Tomma Abts, Varda Caivano, Kim Fischer, Katharina Grosse, Bill Komoski, Alex Kwartler, Chris Martin, Julie Mehretu, Katy Moran, Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino, Peter Peri, Thomas Scheibitz, Clare Woods) Chapter 6: The Act of Painting (Bernard Frize, Wade Guyton, Jacqueline Humphries, Nathan Hylden, Charline von Heyl, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Anselm Reyle, Josh Smith, Rudolf Stingel, Kelley Walker, Christopher Wool, Heimo Zobernig)

Reviews

Lively survey?a useful tool in forming a sharper, broader sense of what is going on in the world of abstract painting. <br>-Roberta Smith, The New York Times <br><br> Pictorially jazzy work?the visual energy and variety of these reproductions burst all pigeonholes. It's a wild ride of a reference book. <br>- San Francisco Chronicle

'Each of the essays accompanying the artists is thoughtful - there is an intimacy about the writing, and the artists, that one does not expect from a large, heavy hardback - perhaps this is the element that lifts the book beyond a standard survey. Nickas knows that these paintings, interviews, essays and studio visits are both a record of a new generation of painters and an evocation of a specific time.' Laura McLean-Ferris, ArtReview, January 2010

Author Information

Bob Nickas is a critic and curator based in New York. He has organized more than eighty exhibitions since 1984 and served on the teams responsible for Aperto at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and the 2003 Biennale de Lyon. From 2003-06 he was Curatorial Advisor at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. The author of numerous essays in catalogues and monographs, he is a regular contributor to Artforum and founding editor of Index magazine. His books include two collections of his writing, Live Free or Die (2000) and Theft is Vision (2007).

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