A study of how the rhetoric of painting remains omnipresent in the field of art.
Alongside in-depth analyses of the work of artists like douard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, and Marcel Broodthaers, the book includes conversations with artists in which Graw\'s insights are further discussed and put to the test..
Its value is grounded in its capacity to both reveal and mystify its conditions of production.
Thus, painting is not restricted to the limits of its own frame, but possesses a specific potential that is located in its material and physical signs.
Following the tradition of classical theories of painting based on exchanges with artists, Isabelle Graw\'s The Love of Painting considers the art form not as something fixed, but as a visual and discursive material formation with the potential to fascinate owing to its ability to produce the fantasy of liveliness.
However, looking more closely at exhibited photographs, assemblages, installations, or performances, it is evident how the rhetorics of painting still remain omnipresent.
Painting seems to have lost its dominant position in the field of the arts.
A study of how the rhetoric of painting remains omnipresent in the field of art