What painting is : how to think about oil painting, using the language of alchemy
Elkins, James, 1955-2018
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The author of this text argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience. In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a strange language to explore what it is a painter really does in the studio-the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colors will mix, and how they will look. Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian, this anniversary edition includes a new introduction and preface by Elkins in which he further reflects on the experience of painting and its role in the study of art today.
Main title:
Author:
Elkins, James, 1955-, author
Edition:
Second edition.
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2018.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Notes:
Previous edition: 1999.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface Introduction to the 20th Anniversary editionIntroduction A Short Course in Forgetting Chemistry How to Count in Oil and Stone The Mouldy Materia Prima How do Substances Occupy the Mind? Coagulating, cohobating, macerating, reverberating The Studio as a Kind of Psychosis Steplessness The Beautiful Reddish Light of the Philosopher's Stone Last Words
ISBN:
9781138319882 (pbk)
Dewey class:
750.18
LC class:
ND1135
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
535477