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Painting : funny peculiar / edited by Andrew Hunt.

Contributor(s): Series: Slimvolume. 15 Publication details: London : Slimvolume, 2020.Description: 95 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781910516140
  • 1910516147
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Contents:
Introduction / Magnus Quaife
Notes on shape / Amy Sillman
The shape of the past in contemporary painting / Fionna Barber
Full frontal : body and site in painting / Melissa Gordon
Beyond irony: humour, painting and the funny-peculiar / Robert Garnett
Panel discussion
Summary: The event explored ideas in contemporary painting connected to shape, humour and diagrammatic thought. Speakers included Amy Sillman, Fionna Barber, Melissa Gordon, and Robert Garnett. The event was moderated by Magnus Quaife and chaired by Andrew Hunt. This book is part of the Slimvolume Synthesis series, a sequence of publications that includes texts by artists, critics, curators, poets and theorists to produce new creative disjunctions between art and writing.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Red 759.07 HUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12109

Painting Funny Peculiar contains the transcripts and edited papers from the symposium Funny Peculiar, which took place on 6 June 2019 at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Magnus Quaife

Notes on shape / Amy Sillman

The shape of the past in contemporary painting / Fionna Barber

Full frontal : body and site in painting / Melissa Gordon

Beyond irony: humour, painting and the funny-peculiar / Robert Garnett

Panel discussion

The event explored ideas in contemporary painting connected to shape, humour and diagrammatic thought. Speakers included Amy Sillman, Fionna Barber, Melissa Gordon, and Robert Garnett. The event was moderated by Magnus Quaife and chaired by Andrew Hunt. This book is part of the Slimvolume Synthesis series, a sequence of publications that includes texts by artists, critics, curators, poets and theorists to produce new creative disjunctions between art and writing.