What painting is

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"In this classic text, 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 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 pr…

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Full title :What painting is / James Elkins.

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Publication Date:©2019
Edition:Second edition

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Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

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Description:xxii, 246 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color) ; : 23 cm

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ISBN:9781138319882, 1138319880, 9781138319899, 1138319899
oclc:on1108784404
LC Classification:ND1135
Dewey Decimal:750.1/8

Introduction -- 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, recerberating -- The studio as a kind of psychosis -- Steplessness.