Unruly Tools: Survival Strategies of Painting

This lecture examines the reasons for the renewal of the medium of painting through the use of unusual tools since the 1960s. The term “tool” will be understood broadly and discussed from an art historical, social anthropological and philosophical perspective.

Dr Pia Gottschaller is Reader in Technical Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Prior to taking up this position in 2017-18, she worked as curator and paintings conservator at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Tate, London. In addition, she held research positions and grants, amongst them a Postdoc Fellowship at Bilbiotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut for Art History, Rome, and at the Getty, Los Angeles, where she worked as Senior Research Specialist and was a Conservation Guest Scholar. Her publications focus on aspects of modern and contemporary artistic practice in Latin America, the United States and Europe.