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"In this classic text, 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 spec...

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Main Author: Elkins, James 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2019
Edition:Second edition
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"In this classic text, 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, this anniversary edition includes a new introduction and preface by Elkins in which he further reflects on the experience of painting and its role in the study of art today"--
Item Description:Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color.)
ISBN:9780429843518
0429843518

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