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What painting is : how to think about oil painting, using the language of alchemy

By James , Elkins

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1999
ISBN
0-415-92113-9, 9780415921138, 9780415926621, 0-415-92662-9, 0-203-01161-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8020233 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
246\252
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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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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