When we talk about painting, what are we talking about?

In the often generous current raft of publications about painting, the season’s contributions help us to raise questions about the stuff of topical arguments on the subject, over and above the petition of principle in the mode of “it’s painting because it’s painting”, which puts at risk the very historicist pigeonholing by medium. When we talk about painting, what are we talking about? The proposed response offered by Barry Schabsky in the opening essay in Vitamine P–a kind of “best of” overv..