
Vitamin P is an image-heavy book offering an overview of the state of painting today & documents the most recent concerns & ideas among contemporary painters. In the wake of new media such as installation video performance & digital art the traditional medium of painting has enjoyed a renaissance among a recent generation of artists. Alongside the evergrowing reputation of significant living painters such as Gerhard Richter Agnes Martin & Peter Halley many younger artists have chosen painting over any other medium & are exploring new means to broaden the traditional field of oil on canvas". It is this younger generation (who emerged in the 1990s) that Vitamin P aims to represent in an A-Z survey of 114 of its leading new international practitioners with each artist illustrated by numerous examples of his or her works accompanied by a short explanatory text. Often moving beyond the most traditional image associated with this medium Vitamin P hopes to illustrate the richness eclecticism dynamism & contemporaneity of the practice of painting today. Barry Schwabskys introductory text offers a critical survey of the evolution of painting since the late 1950s"