Calling Beauty

“An Argument about Beauty” by Susan Sontag serves as the basis for exploring the relationships between contemporary art and the historical responsibilities of painting to represent reality.

Authored by James Voorhies

Columbus College of the Arts, Bureau for Open Culture, 2010
96 pages
8.25 x 5 inches

Designed by Nate Padavick

Contributions by Thorsten Brinkmann, Moyra Davey, Elizabeth Gerdeman, Ellen Harvey, Matts Leiderstam, Ryan McGinley, Anna Molska, Susan Sontag, Eve Sussman/The Rufus Corporation, Darren Waterston

Made possible with funding and staff of Columbus College of Art & Design with grants from Greater Columbus Arts Council, Ohio Arts Council; realized within my responsibilities as Director of Exhibitions at Columbus College of Art & Design

Calling Beauty is organized around four conventional pillars of reflection: still life, landscape, nude and portraiture. It includes work that refers to these traditional genres only to emphasize the retreat from that tradition and thus renewed engagements with the history of art and painting today.

Susan Sontag’s essay is reprinted in full in this book.

PDF, Exhibition