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 …
Here, Elkins 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. "Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elki…
Here, Elkins 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. "Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elki…
"Mark Rothko (1903-1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime, adding his thoughtful, intelligent, and opinionated voice to the debates of the contempo…
"Mark Rothko (1903-1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime, adding his thoughtful, intelligent, and opinionated voice to the debates of the contempo…
Studie naar de relatie tussen kunst en radicale politiek in het Parijs van voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
"How did painters and their public speak about art in Rembrandt's age? This book about the writings of the painter-poet Samuel van Hoogstraten, one of Rembrandt's pupils, examines a wide variety of themes from painting practice and theory from the Dutch Golden Age. It addresses …
Over de waardering voor Rembrandt in het 19de-eeuwse Frankrijk Voor veel negentiende-eeuwse Franse kunstenaars, schrijvers en verzamelaars had de naam Rembrandt een magische klank. Kunstenaars en critici beschouwden zijn werk en artistieke persoonlijkheid als maatgevend en gebru…
"Turner was deeply affected by the world in which he lived, the sciences that explained it, and the conflicts and accomplishments of his society. He wove these strands into the dense fabric of the historical pictures he created, pictures that were extremely varied, complex, orig…
Caterpillage is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting. It develops an interpretive approach based on the author's previous studies of portraiture, and its goal is to offer its readers a new way to think and talk about the genre of still life. The book begins …
Mr. Pink:""Why can't we pick out our own color?""Joe:""I tried that once, it don't work. You get four guys fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black.""--Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir DogsMen's clothes went black in the nineteenth century. Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why…