Material Matters: Painting and Its Materialities
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Keyword: painting, artistic practices, materials
Editor: Sigrid Sandström Size: 170 x 240 mm Pages: 128 Format: softcover Language: English Illustration: in colour throughout Introduction: Sigrid Sandström Contribution: Filippa Arrias, Daniel Bozhkov, Sabeth Buchmann, Aslı Çavusoglu, Nadia Hebson, Suzanne Hudson, Kristina Jansson, Mark Miodownik, Silke Otto-Knapp, Rachelle Puryear, Håkan Rehnberg, Mats Rosengren, Sigrid Sandström, Sophie Tottie. Book design: Kölqvist Printing: Livonia Publisher: Art & Theory / The Royal Institute of Art Pub Year: 2020 Weight: 296 gr ISBN 13: 9789198606522Description
Article no.: 9789198606522
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.