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Teaching and Research Profile
Current Teaching
In his writing and teaching Tony Godfrey tries to deal with difficult issues in a clear and lively manner. He is concerned not just with students getting the necessary knowledge to work in the art world, but with them developing their own critical and moral position. One learns about art from experiencing it and it is in that very act of experiencing that it is best taught.
Research Interests
Issues in Contemporary Painting
How does painting today relate to its various traditions?
How does it relate to a world dominated by the mass media?
How have the "anti-art" strategies of the late sixties affected art made today that is wholly about an engagement with the world and the sense we experience it through?
Biography
Tony grew up in Dorset and studied at Leeds University. For several years he taught in art schools in England. He has worked at Sotheby's Institute since 1989. Since 2006 he has also been a Professor of Fine Art at Plymouth University. Since 1978 Tony has published regularly on contemporary art, publishing a book on painting, The New Image: painting in the Eighties in 1986, a book on drawing, Drawing Today in 1990 and a book on Conceptual Art, Conceptual Art in 1998. The last book is still in print and has been translated into French, German, Greek, Japanese and Korean. His next book, Painting Today will be published by Phaidon Press in late 2007
Recent Publications
2005
Essay in book Maria Chevska. Black Dog Press
Extract from novel Why do angels never smile? in Short Stories About Painting. Ed Jeffrey Dennis, pub. University of Arts
Book Review. William Kentridge Prints. Print Quarterly
Exhibition Review. Recent sculpture exhibitions in London. Burlington Magazine December 2005
2006
Exhibition Review. Art from Brazil. Burlington Magazine May 2006
"What happened next in Conceptual Art: Chapter Eleven" Contemporary 21. Issue 85, 2006
Exhibition Review. Liverpool Biennial 2006. Burlington Magazine December 2006
Essay "Pictures of Nothing and very like: Anglo-Saxon responses to the Void" in Ex. Cat. L'Immagine del vuoto (The Image of the Void) Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
2007 (Forthcoming)
Painting Today. Phaidon Press
Hans van Eickelboom. Aperture
Sian Bowen. V & A Museum
Tim Maguire. Martin Browne Fine Art, Australia
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