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Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting

by Barry Schwabsky · 2002

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This highly illustrated overview of the state of painting documents concerns and ideas among contemporary painters. Often moving beyond the traditional image associated with this medium, this survey illustrates the richness, eclecticism, dynamism and contemporaneity of painting.

Themes
artartists
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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