Unruly Tools: Contemporary Artists and the Reinvention of Painting

$50.00 at The Getty Museum.

Available January 2027 Pia Gottschaller The first book to examine the role of unconventional tools in contemporary painting is required reading for anyone interested in painting’s recent past and future. Painting, often regarded as the oldest of art forms, has been repeatedly declared “dead.” In this original and compelling study, technical art historian Pia Gottschaller thoroughly dismantles that notion, revealing how painters radically reimagined the medium in the years following World War II. No longer…