{"product_id":"the-undiscovered-country","title":"The Undiscovered Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor painters faced with the metaphorical death of painting  the way forward has indeed been puzzling. nevertheless  the territory continues to be explored. As Luc Tuymans put it  \"Painting is a way of thinking and constitutes an enormous archetypal pattern which artists constantly fall back upon.\" Through 84 stunning reproductions  The Undiscovered Country addresses the ability of painting to tackle issues of representation now that  in the broader culture  the representational function is occupied almost exclusively by photography. Chronogical  it begins in the 1960s with paintings by John Baldessari  Fairfield Porter  Gerhard Richter and others  which range in approach from painterly to conceptual. The argument continues with figurative painting from the 1970s by Philip Guston  and proceeds via influential paintings of the 1980s and 1990s by Thomas Lawson  Kerry James Marshall  Luc Tuymans and others. Also discussed is a group of younger contemporary painters including Mamma Andersson  Mari Eastman and Thomas Eggerer. The Undiscovered Country does not position painting as a threatened medium  nor as one unjustly underrated  but instead looks carefully at the work of a number of painters who have thoroughly examined their own practices  and who continue to find approaches to representation that can only be resolved through painting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983922884661,"sku":"ByrdShop_0943739276","price":37.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780943739274.jpg?v=1770814182","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-undiscovered-country","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}