What Painting Is

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Description

Unlike many books on painting that regularly talk about art or painters, James Elkins’ compelling and original work specializes in alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to develop into and be transformed by the medium.

In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the normal vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what this can be a painter actually does in her or his studio – the smells, the mess, the struggle to regulate the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colours will mix, and how they are going to look.

Written from the standpoint of a painter-turned-art historian, What Painting Is is like nothing you’ve ever read about art.


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