"What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history."

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Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.3, Routledge

James Elkins

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