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An edition of What painting is (1999)

What painting is

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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 the studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colors 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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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
246

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What painting is: how to think about oil painting, using the language of alchemy
1999, Routledge
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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750/.1/8
Library of Congress
ND1135 .E44 1999, ND1135 .E44 1998, ND1135.E44 1998

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x, 246 p. :
Number of pages
246

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OL354939M
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0415921139
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1038516267, 301834556
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134885
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4307121

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