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What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy

What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy


James Elkins



From When one looks at a Monet, what exactly is one looking at? A framed painting, surely. And, too, as traditional art ...
Nabokov and the Art of Painting

Nabokov and the Art of Painting


D. Barton Johnson, Gerard De Vries, Liana Ashenden



About the Author Gerard de Vries’s writings on Nabokov have appeared in Russian Literature Triquarterly, Nabokov S...
Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art

Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art


David W. Galenson



Review In Painting outside the Lines, David Galenson offers the simple but fascinating thesis that statistical analysis r...
Arthur Boyd: A Life

Arthur Boyd: A Life


Darleen Bungey



About the Author Originally a copywriter in Australian, American and UK advertising, Darleen Bungey worked as an associat...
And Picasso Painted Guernica

And Picasso Painted Guernica


Alain Serres



From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 4–8—In 1937, civilians in the Basque town of Guernica were ...
Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture

Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture


Robert Mills



From Publishers Weekly In this mixed bag of jargon-heavy academic meandering (it contains plenty of instances of "alerity...
Subject, Society and Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Subject, Society and Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)


Roy Boyne



Review `This is a highly original, indeed an extraordinary book, standing out among the conventional philosophical treatm...
The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 3: Mughal and Rajput Painting

The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 3: Mughal and Rajput Painting


Milo Cleveland Beach



Review "Beach's work is a sumptuous survey of the history of this long tradition....The strengths of the work lie in Beac...
The History of Art: The Essential Guide to Painting Through the Ages

The History of Art: The Essential Guide to Painting Through the Ages


A.N. Hodge



The History of Art: The Essential Guide to Painting Through the Ages...
Early Greek Vase Painting, 11th-6th Centuries BC: A Handbook (World of Art)

Early Greek Vase Painting, 11th-6th Centuries BC: A Handbook (World of Art)


John Boardman



About the Author Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at Oxford. His books include th...
Modelling and Painting Figures (Osprey Modelling Manuals 8)

Modelling and Painting Figures (Osprey Modelling Manuals 8)


Jerry Scutts



From the Publisher A perfect combination of easy-to-follow text combined with comprehensive step-by-step photography make...
Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon

Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon


Sandra Cate



About the Author Sandra Cate teaches anthropology at San Jose State University. She is a co-editor of Converging Interest...
Aesthetics and Painting (Continuum Aesthetics)

Aesthetics and Painting (Continuum Aesthetics)


Jason Gaiger



Review "This book shines a much needed clear, intelligent light on the central questions of the meaning and value of pain...
Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue

Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue


Ela Nutu, J. Cheryl Exum



Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue...
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity


Elkins



From Publishers Weekly Plato shrewdly noticed that a painting loses its liveliness the moment the viewer confronts its "m...
Art Explained (Annotated Guides)

Art Explained (Annotated Guides)


Robert Cumming



About the Author Robert Cummings is a bestselling writer and art critic, and was formerly Chairman of Christie's Educatio...
The Arts and the Definition of the Human: Toward a Philosophical Anthropology

The Arts and the Definition of the Human: Toward a Philosophical Anthropology


Joseph Margolis



Review "In search of the distinctively human as a key to understanding language, culture, history, agency, creativity and...
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style


Michael Baxandall



Review `Of interest not only to Art Historians, but to anyone concerned with the material culture of the Renaissance.' D...
Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting


Siri Hustvedt



From Publishers Weekly These wonderful essays capture Hustvedt's thoughtful, intensely personal and aesthetically charged...
Painting and Decorating

Painting and Decorating


Roy Hughes



Book Description The one stop resource for success in Further Education courses in Decorative Occupations / Painting & De...
Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures

Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures


Dominic Mciver Lopes



Review Dominic Lopes's Sight and Sensibility contributes, with originality and sharp argumentation, to a growing interest...
Decorative Furniture with Donna Dewberry

Decorative Furniture with Donna Dewberry


Donna Dewberry



Decorative Furniture with Donna Dewberry...
Oil Painting For Dummies

Oil Painting For Dummies


Anita Marie Giddings, Sherry Stone Clifton



Nobody ever said that oil painting was easy. But it gets much easier and a lot more fun when you follow a step-by-step approach th...
Building and Painting Scale Figures

Building and Painting Scale Figures


Sheperd Paine



Building and Painting Scale Figures...