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What Painting Is

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What Painting Is

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What Painting Is book

What Painting Is

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What Painting Is book

ByJames Elkins
Edition 2nd Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 20 December 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429453700
Pages 284
eBook ISBN 9780429453700
Subjects Arts
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Elkins, J. (2019). What Painting Is (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429453700

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|31 pages

A short course in forgetting chemistry

chapter 2|28 pages

How to count in oil and stone

chapter 3|28 pages

The mouldy materia prima

chapter 4|21 pages

How do substances occupy the mind?

chapter 5|30 pages

Coagulating, cohobating, macerating, reverberating

chapter 6|21 pages

The studio as a kind of psychosis

chapter 7|13 pages

Steplessness

chapter 8|11 pages

The beautiful reddish light of the philosopher’s stone

chapter 9|9 pages

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