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Title: WHAT PAINTING IS
By: James Elkins
Format: Paperback

List price: £24.99


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ISBN 10: 0415926629
ISBN 13: 9780415926621
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 29 March, 2000
Pages: 256
Description: At the root of this tremendously original work is Elkins' desire to bring the study of art back to the studio to understand the artist's relationship to his or her medium.
Synopsis: Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins' compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to transform and be transformed by the medium. 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 her or his studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colours 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.
Illustrations: 16pp colour section
Publication: UK
Imprint: Routledge
Returns: Returnable
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