margaret-cooter: This week at college

Daniel Sturgis is head of BA Painting at Camberwell. He showed just one of his own paintings

and then went on to talk about the culture of painting, negotiating a position, resurgence of 1970s painters, and some curating projects he's been involved in. Chris has summed up the lecture here; my own take is to follow up some of the leads (and get lost in following up leads from those leads...) So I'll mention just a few of the exhibitions and artists mentioned in the lecture.

High Times Hard Times: New York painting 1967-75, a 2006 exhibition

was "a saber-waving, opinion-altering show, for the simple if thrilling reason that it posits an art-historical missing link. It’s composed entirely of abstract work made by painters who were born too late to be Pop artists or hard-core Minimalists, and who then tried to take the medium to less structured and splashy, more intuitive and experimental shores" - or so it says here (and you can see many of the works in it).

Before the end: the last painting show (2004) showed the final painting made by conceptual artists - before they went all conceptual (in the 1960s), entered the realm of ideas, and stopped painting. Those were the days when painting was dead - remember?

Now a list of names of painters, some from the 70s and some born in the 70s (or later):

Martin Barre (considered the precursor of minimal art in France) -