Art · advanced
What Painting Is
by James Elkins
About This Book
In What Painting Is, 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, What Painting Is is like nothing you have ever read about art.
Editorial Note
Uses alchemy to describe what happens when pigment meets surface — painting as physical, chemical encounter rather than intellectual one.
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