Author: Craig Staff

This compelling new study considers contemporary painting’s relationship with time and with events, ideas and paintings from the past. Following Fr...

Contemporary art is often preoccupied with time, or acts in which the past is recovered. Through specific case studies of artists who strategically...

This book presents both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of the medium of painting over the ...

The monochrome - a single colour of paint applied over the entirety of a canvas - remains one of the more contentious modernist artistic inventions...

This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by e...