One of the twentieth century’s most influential texts on philosophical aesthetics Painting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim’s encompassin

A collection of essays on Wollheim's philosophy of art; includes a response from Wollheim himself.

“Why do artists love books?” This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual an

Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking

A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.