CALL FOR PAPERS
Theme: The idea of painting
Publication : esse arts + opinions no. 76
Deadline: April 1, 2012
Painting has more often than once been declared dead, yet it has nevertheless remained at the heart of artistic practices. The revival of interest that painting seems to be enjoying today has thus inspired the magazine esse, arts + opinions to further explore this phenomenon. For this reason, the forthcoming issue wishes to examine artistic practices that question painting as a visual device and make its history and conventions their subject. In short, it is not painting as such but the more general idea of painting that is of interest to us. What to think of the dramatic “reappearance” of gestuality and technical virtuosity in the practice of the medium? Also, what can be said of the general scepticism directed towards painting for its supposed “natural” complicity with the art market? What about the notions of the window, the screen, and tableau, which have provided painting with its various theoretical models throughout history?
These are the ideas, among others, which this issue would like to explore by inviting writers to submit their proposals and texts.
Send your text (750-2,000 words, footnotes included) to [email protected] before April 1, 2012. Please include a short biography (50-80 words), an abstract of the text (100 words), as well as postal and e-mail addresses. We also welcome submissions (reviews, essays, analyses of contemporary art issues) not related to a particular theme (deadlines: September 1, January 10 and April 1).
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