Calling Beauty
<p>“An Argument about Beauty” by American writer and cultural theorist Susan Sontag serves as a basis for examining relationships between contemporary art and a historical responsibility for painting to portray beauty through representation. <em>Calling Beauty</em> is organized around four conventional pillars of reflection: still life, landscape, nude and portraiture. It includes work that draws on these traditional genres and their associations with beauty only to emphasize the retreat from that tradition and thus renewed engagements with a history of art and painting today. Sontag’s essay is reprinted in full in this book.</p>
Curator: James Voorhies
Artists: Thorsten Brinkmann, Moyra Davey, Elizabeth Gerdeman, Ellen Harvey, Matts Leiderstam, Ryan McGinley, Anna Molska, Susan Sontag, Eve Sussman, The Rufus Corporation, Cassandra Waterston
Designer: Nate Padavick
Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus College of Art & Design
ISBN: 9780979747656