Barry Schwabsky - "The Observer Effect" - Zachary Cahill and Michelle Grabner

Barry Schwabsky will discuss The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting. He will be joined in conversation with Zachary Cahill and Michelle Grabner. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. 

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About the book: In The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky looks at the different directions that painting has taken since the turn of the millennium. He deflates the twentieth-century belief that abstraction and figuration in painting are dichotomous. Instead, Schwabsky argues, they are methods of asking or answering the questions: What is painting? What can painting become in an observer’s encounter with it? This wide-ranging selection of texts emphasizes the coextensive work the viewer brings to painting alongside the artist—the construction of form and meaning.

About the author: Barry Schwabsky is art critic for "The Nation" and coeditor of international reviews for "Artforum". His previous books include Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice (2013), The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present (2016), and Heretics of Language (2018), as well as several volumes of poetry. He lives in New York.

This event is presented by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore