What Painting Is 2nd Edition - How to Think About Oil Painting Using the Language of Alchemy

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.

Product details

• Authors: James Elkins, James (Art Institute of Chicago Elkins
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138319882
• ISBN: 978-1-138-31988-2
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / General, ART / History / General, ART / Public Art, ART / Techniques / Painting, History of Art, Art techniques & principles, Painting & paintings, The Arts: techniques and principles, Art styles not defined by date, Paintings and painting