The Undiscovered Country examines various approaches to the question of representation in contemporary painting, addressing both formal and content issues in painting after photography and after abstraction.
The book begins in the 1960s with paintings by Vija Celmins, Gerhard Richter, John Baldessari, and Neil Jenny, and advances to the present via work by Philip Guston, Thomas Lawson, Jochen Klein, and Luc Tuymans. About half the book will be devoted to recent work, including paintings by Silke Otto-Knapp, Enoc Perez, Kirsten Everberg, Richard Prince, and Thomas Eggerer.
