What Painting Is

James Elkins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2019 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-31988-2 (ISBN)

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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 strange 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.

James Elkins is Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including How to Use Your Eyes, What Photography Is,Visual Literacy,and Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction, among other titles.

Preface

Introduction to the 20th Anniversary edition

Introduction

A Short Course in Forgetting Chemistry

How to Count in Oil and Stone

The Mouldy Materia Prima

How do Substances Occupy the Mind?

Coagulating, cohobating, macerating, reverberating

The Studio as a Kind of Psychosis

Steplessness

The Beautiful Reddish Light of the Philosopher’s Stone

Last Words

Erscheinungsdatum	27.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 15 Illustrations, color; 15 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	1-138-31988-0 / 1138319880
ISBN-13	978-1-138-31988-2 / 9781138319882
Zustand	Neuware