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Bath School of Art & Design's publishing imprint Wunderkammer Press are pleased to present their latest title: Title: Painting with Architecture in Mind Authors/Editors: Ed Whittaker & Alex Landrum Publishing date: 30th May 2012 Category: Art, Art theory, Architecture Binding: Paperback Pages: 168 Size: 240 x 168mm ISBN: 978-0-9566462-1-7 RRP: £19.99 Painting with Architecture in Mind, presents a bold challenge to the received ideas of the parallel histories of architecture and painting to suggest the necessity of a rethinking of the terms of reference of both mediums. The book addresses the question of painting in relation to its architectural frame or spaces of display. It considers ways that some key aspects of painting practice – their modes of expression and forms of expansion – have become architecturalised, in their various attempts to internalise architectural ‘ideas’ into their own concerns, from early modernism to the present. The authors see the painted surface as a virtual interface, implicitly architectural yet ‘eluding’ easy assimilation to challenge the limits of historical modernism. This concept is vividly investigated in Mark Pimlott’s keynote essay, ‘Natural antagonism: notes on colour or architecture’. The architectural possibilities of painting in the work of Henri Matisse is the subject of the book’s other keynote essay, ‘Matisse in the becoming–architecture of painting’ by Eric Alliez and Jean–Claude Bonne, presented here for the first time in English translation. The authors contributing to the volume are: Eric Alliez and Jean-Claude Bonne, John Chilver, Bernice Donszelmann, Catherine Ferguson, Linda Khatir, Mark Pimlott, John Rajchman and Edward Whittaker. They each explore a different critical function of painting in architecture; its ability to shape-shift and adapt to the architecture in which it is housed, transforming our experience of this interrelationship in the process. The essays discuss the work of a wide range of artists: Henri Matisse, Michael Craig-Martin, Michael Majerus, Jorge Pardo, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Fred Sandback, Thomas Scheibitz, Lawrence Weiner and Remy Zaugg, among others, along with the work of architects Herzog & de Meuron and Mies van der Rohe, and draws upon the writings of art and architecture historians, continental philosophers and critical theorists. Each author gives an intellectually rigorous, clearly argued and accessible account of the persistence of the painted surface and, also, how it can be transformed by opening out to enfold the actual space of the architecture it inhabits. The volume, containing eight essays, a unique foldout artwork by painter Brad Lochore and over thirty-six full-colour illustrations, will be of interest to artists, architects, historians and theorists, as well as to students of these disciplines. It will also appeal to an informed gallery–going public, interested in not only looking at paintings but also aware of the relationship between ‘art’, how and where it is presented and how this informs its reception. To order your copy either contact [log in to unmask] call us on: 01225 876342, order on Amazon.co.uk or visit our website www.wunderkammerpress.com