Screen LibraryThe Forever now : contemporary painting in an atemporal world /
This book presents the work of 17 artists whose paintings reflect a singular approach that characterizes our cultural moment at the beginning of this new millennium--they refuse to allow us to define, or even meter our time by them. This phenomenon was first identified by the science fiction writer...
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Museum of Modern Art,
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New York, New York : New York, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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This book presents the work of 17 artists whose paintings reflect a singular approach that characterizes our cultural moment at the beginning of this new millennium--they refuse to allow us to define, or even meter our time by them. This phenomenon was first identified by the science fiction writer William Gibson, who used the term "atemporality" to describe a cultural product that paradoxically doesn't represent, through its style, its content or its medium, the time from which it comes. Atemporality, or timelessness, manifests itself in painting as an ahistorical free-for-all, where contem |
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Catalog of an exhibition held December 14, 2014-April 5, 2015. "In visual art, atemporailty manifests itself as a kind of art-making that is inspired by, refers to, or avails itself of styles, subjects, motifs, materials, strategies, and ideas from an array of periods on the art-historical timeline."--Page 14. |
| Carrier Form: | 184 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-181). |
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9780870709128 0870709127 |
| Index Number: | ND196 |
| CLC: | J231-28 |
| Call Number: | J231-28/H799 |
| Contents: | Foreword -- The forever now : contemporary painting in an atemporal world -- Artists' pages [texts by Margaret Ewing]. Richard Aldrich ; Joe Bradley ; Kerstin Brätsch ; Matt Connors ; Michaela Eichwald ; Nicole Eisenman ; Mark Grotjahn ; Charline von Heyl ; Rashid Johnson ; Julie Mehretu ; Dianna Molzan ; Oscar Murillo ; Laura Owens ; Amy Sillman ; Josh Smith ; Mary Weatherford ; Michael Williams -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Selected exhibition histories and bibliographies / [compiled by Kimia Shahi] -- Lenders to the exhyibition -- Trustees to the Museum of Modern Art. |