Presence, Process, and the Pictorial Real - (Image) by Damrau Tillmann (Paperback)

About the Book

Today, painting has lost its dominant position and has become one artistic medium among others. This book offers a variety of perspectives on the role of painting in the twenty-first century, discussing whether and how painting is still pertinent to contemporary image production.

Book Synopsis

Painting, according to recent findings, dates back more than seventy thousand years, and, across the millenia, it proved to be an extremely robust and versatile medium of human self-reflection. Today, painting is a medium almost exclusively confined to the artistic production of pictures. It has lost its dominant position in contemporary art and has finally become one artistic medium amongst others. Given the incredible number of pictures produced today, it seems to be reasonable and relevant to discuss whether and how painting is still pertinent to contemporary image production. This book will offer a variety of perspectives on the role of painting in the 21st century to address these questions.

About the Author

Tillmann Damrau, born in 1961, is an artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Since 2016, he has been a full professor at the Department of Art and Material Culture of Technische Universität Dortmund. He received numerous invitations for lectureships, lectures, and workshops in Germany and abroad. Within the research-project »e-transform«, he examined pictorial strategies enabling transformation processes in energy supply. His principal subjects are visual culture, image theory, pictorial strategies, and iconic narration.