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Unruly Tools: Contemporary Artists and the Reinvention of Painting making manuscript The authors dismiss entrenched barriersAvailable January 2027 Pia Gottschaller The first book to examine the role of unconventional tools in contemporary painting is required reading for anyone interested in paintings 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