Painting as Remodel

Yve-Alain Bois’ Painting as Model was first published in 1993 and it still stands as one of the most important collection of essays, looking at painting as both a conceptual and material enquiry. The aim of this issue of the Journal of Contemporary Painting is to revisit Painting as Model from a contemporary perspective so as to examine its ongoing impact. To do this we have also translated into English key texts by Bois that throw new light on the context of his thinking. Also translated here, for the first time in English, is Hubert Damisch’s chapter, La Peinture est un vrai trois, from his 1984 book Fenêtre jaune cadmium. Damisch’s book can be considered as the crucial contextual background to Bois’ methodology, as he explored in the article that gave Painitng as Model its title. We believe that the historical material provided here will give greater insight into Bois’ work.

Introduction co-written with Laura Lisbon and Dan Sturgis for an edition of the Journal of Contemporary Painting that revisits Yves-Alain Bois' Painting as Model, published in the 1990s that was an iconic text of the period that is still relevant today.

Mick Finch, Laura Lisbon and Dan Sturgis, co-edited this issue of the Journal.