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What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy

By James Elkins

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0415926629, 0415921139, 9780415926621, 9780203011614, 9780415921138
LCC
ND1135 .E44 1999
Open Library ID
OL354939M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8017348 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
256\252
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
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Description

Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins’ compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to transform and be transformed by the medium. In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what it is a painter really does in her or his studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colours will mix, and how they will look. Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian, What Painting Is is like nothing you have ever read about art.

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