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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.
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..."an illuminating exploration of the pungent and visceral fecundity of the painter's workplace.." -Nicholas Harding, "Sydney Morning Herald ..."colorful and entertaining... This is a richly interesting look at the worlds of alchemy and painting." -Virginia Bryant, "Parabola, Summer 2001 ..."this is a truly original book. It will make you look at paintings differently and think about paint differently." -"Globe "This is a novel way of considering paintings, and excitingly different from standard art criticism." -"The Atlantic Monthly "An inspired, poetic account of an artist's creation is revealed." -"Reviewer's Bookwatch
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Review from Dispatch, Columbus, OH 12/98
"The best books often introduce new worlds. What Painting Is exposes the reader to painting materials, brushstroke techniques and alchemy (of all things), in a book filled with rich description and illuminatiaong insight. Read this and you'll never look at paintings in the same way again."
"The best books often introduce new worlds. What Painting Is exposes the reader to painting materials, brushstroke techniques and alchemy (of all things), in a book filled with rich description and illuminatiaong insight. Read this and you'll never look at paintings in the same way again."
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0415926629
- ISBN 13 9780415926621
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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