The indiscipline of painting
Subtitle: Tate St. Ives, 8 October 2011-3 January 2012, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, 14 January-10 March 2012
By: [curated by Daniel Sturgis with Sarah Shalgosky and Martin Clark]
Contributors: Mead Gallery; Tate Gallery St Ives
Publisher: Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781849760003
Subjects: Abstract Art; Exhibitions; Modern Painting
Description: The Indiscipline of Painting is an international group exhibition including works by forty-nine artists from the 1960s to now. Selected by British painter Daniel Sturgis, it considers how the languages of abstraction have remained urgent, relevant and critical as they have been revisited and reinvented by subsequent generations of artists over the last 50 years. It goes on to demonstrate the way in which the history and legacy of abstract painting continues to inspire artists working today. The contemporary position of abstract painting is problematic. It can be seen to be synonymous with a modernist moment that has long since passed, and an ideology which led the medium to stagnate in self-reflexivity and ideas of historical progression. The Indiscipline of Painting challenges such assumptions. It reveals how painting's modernist histories, languages and positions have continued to provoke ongoing dialogues with contemporary practitioners, even as painting's decline and death has been routinely and erroneously declared. The show brings together works by British, American and European artists made over the last five decades and features major new commissions and loans. It includes important works by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Gerhard Richter and Bridget Riley alongside other lesser known artists such as Tomma Abts, Martin Barré, Mary Heilmann and Jeremy Moon.
Notes: Exhibition catalogue.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The indiscipline of painting  -- Daniel Sturgis; title: The agility of abstraction -- Terry R. Myers.