01398 a2200337 4500 1138319880 20250317100420.0 250312042019GB 30 eng 9781138319882 Taylor & Francis GBP 36.99 BB 01 eng AB thema AF thema AGA thema AB bic AF bic ACB bic ART015000 bisac ART000000 bisac ART020000 bisac ART062000 bisac SOC052000 bisac 750.18 bisac James Elkins What Painting Is 2 Oxford Routledge 20191220 262 p 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. 3399 3399