What painting is : how to think about oil painting, using the language of alchemy / James Elkins - Nueva York : Routledge, 1999 - x, 246 páginas : ilustraciones a color ; 22 cm. - Art .
Introduction. -- A short course in forgetting chemistry. -- How to count in oil and stone. -- The loudly materia prima. -- How do substances occupy the mind?. -- Coagulating, cohabiting, 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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