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What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy
By James Elkins
272 pages
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Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian, "What Painting Is" communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. 25 photos, 15 in color.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Color Plates ix
- Introduction 1
- 1 - A Short Course in Forgetting Chemistry 9
- 2 - How to Count in Oil and Stone 40
- 3 - The Mouldy Materia Prima 68
- 4 - How Do Substances Occupy the Mind? 96
- 5 - Coagulating, Cohobating, Macerating, Reverberating 117
- 6 - The Studio as a Kind of Psychosis 147
- 7 - Steplessness 168
- 8 - The Beautiful Reddish Light of the Philosopher's Stone 181
- 9 - Last Words 192
- Notes 201
- Index 233