Looking Through Paintings
Edited by Erma Hermens

ISBN: 1-873132-56-5 • 1998 • $120 • Cloth

The articles in this volume focus on an area of study that has become known informally as "technical art history". It is a wide-ranging, inclusive vocation of the making of art and the means by which we throw light on that process. Although concentrating on painting techniques, materials, and studio practice, it goes far beyond the material into how concepts are translated into substance – how invenzione becomes disegno and colore. In this volume we travel in a great sweep from the general to the particular – from global sources of pigment supply to the specifics of extracting dyestuffs in seventeenth century Holland, from medieval concepts of color to vivid glimpses of nineteenth century London studios. This collection of articles demonstrates the great importance of painting techniques and material for art historical research.