The New Painting

Photographer
Elina Brotherus
Publisher

Thames Hudson
ISBN

9780954600815 — Open search and refresh status Amazon.ca — Open search and refresh status Amazon.com — Open search and refresh status AbeBooks — Open search and refresh status eBay — Open search and refresh status
Publication Year

2005
Edition

First Edition

Hardcover English 80 pages 22.6 × 26.5 cm 740g

Description

The New Painting is a seminal monograph by Finnish artist Elina Brotherus that explicitly bridges the gap between the history of painting and contemporary photography. The book features landscapes and figures—often the artist herself—positioned in dialogue with the compositional rules of Romanticism and the Renaissance. Through a rigorous study of light and color, Brotherus moves away from the purely autobiographical focus of her earlier work toward a more formal exploration of the “image” itself, questioning what makes a photograph look like a painting and vice versa.

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