Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, Paperback

'Painting Abstraction' profiles 80 of today's most vital contemporary abstract painters, such as Mark Grotjahn and Amy Sillman, featuring large full-colour reproductions of their work and incisive texts by author and curator Bob Nickas.

About the Author:

Bob Nickas is a critic and curator based in New York. He has organized more than eighty exhibitions since 1984 and served on the teams responsible for ?Aperto? at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and the 2003 Lyon Biennial. From 2003 to 2006 he was Curatorial Advisor at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. The author of numerous essays in catalogues and monographs, he is a regular contributor to "Artforum" and founding editor of "Index" magazine. His books include two collections of his writing, "Live Free or Die" (2000) and "Theft is Vision" (2007).