What Painting is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy by James Elkins

What Painting is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy

James Elkins

246 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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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, Jame...

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