What painting is : how to think about oil painting, using the language of alchemy / James Elkins.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elkins, James, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
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    751.45 ELK
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