Material matters
Subtitle: painting and its materialities
By: edited by Sigrid Sandström
Publisher: Art and Theory Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9789198606522
Subjects: Artists' materials; Congresses; Painting; Equipment and supplies
Other titles: Painting and its materialities
Description: The texts derive from presentations given at the conference "Material Matters," held at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm on December 13-14, 2018. Material can be symbolic and coded. Our experience of a medium's temporality becomes apparent only through our knowledge of its material behaviour. As the world becomes ever more digital and physically removed, we rely on a lot of materials (technical equipment, tools and infrastructures) to facilitate the remote accessibility of images. And yet, as we become more physically removed, our fascination with "real" stuff increases. The texts in Material Matters represent a great diversity of practices and materials, but also the diversity of meanings suggested by the book's title. They address the materials needed for the implementation of tasks, the material out of which things are made, the material for or subject matter of scholarly work, and matter itself: the raw materials of our surroundings.
Notes: Includes bibliograpical references.