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Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins' compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to transform and be transformed by the medium.

In What Painting Is, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what it is a painter really does in her or his studio - the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colours will mix, and how they will look.

Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian, What Painting Isis like nothing you have ever read about art.

• Introductionp. 1
• A Short Course in Forgetting Chemistryp. 9
• How to Count in Oil and Stonep. 40
• The Mouldy Materia Primap. 68
• How Do Substances Occupy the Mind?p. 96
• Coagulating, Cohobating, Macerating, Reverberatingp. 117
• The Studio as a Kind of Psychosisp. 147
• Steplessnessp. 168
• The Beautiful Reddish Light of the Philosopher's Stonep. 181
• Last Wordsp. 192
• Notesp. 201
• Indexp. 233