By Barry Schwabsky
“Each writer creates his precursor,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges. “His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future”(365). Likewise with painters. And one reason why Melvin Martínez counts as a painter is that he is showing us, in a new way, why Jackson Pollock still matters. [...]
Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. London: Phaidon Press, 2011, 352 pages, ISBN: 9780714861609
By Shana Beth Mason
It has been a decade since the publication of the influential book, Vitamin P. A thorough, visually tingling investigation (juried by critics, institutional professionals and artists) into the practices of the newest generation of painters; its credibility [...]
“The fact remains that there have been no deep innovations in art for forty years.“
Based in London, American art critic Barry Schwabsky is chief art critic of The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. A prolific and respected writer, Schwabsky has made notable contributions to Vitamine P, Saatchi’s Triumph of Painting and The [...]
