Elkins, James

Elkins, James. Four ways of measuring the distance between alchemy and contemporary art. HYLE 9, no. 1 (Mar 2003) 105-118. rhttp //www.hyle.org/ioumal/issues/9-l/elkins.html. 

Elkins, James, ed. What Painting Is How to Think About Oil Painting Using the Language of Alchemy. New York and London Routledge, 1999. 

Elkins, James, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity (New York Routledge, 1999). 

Elkins, James W. (1999). Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). In The Chapman ir Hall Encyclopedia of Environmental Science, ed. David E. Alexander and Rhodes W. Fair-bridge. Boston Kluwer Academic. 

Elkins, James W. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). http //www.cmdl.noaa.gov/noah/publictn/elkins/cfcs.html (acce ssed on October 7, 2005). 

James Elkins underscores the importance of the tide of an important book by Hubert Damisch, The Cadmium Yellow Window. For while the window is an opening for tight into the interior space of a painted room, it is, in acmal-ity, an opaque deposit of minerals on a canvas. This paradox has a significant impact on the matrix of alchemy, painting, clarity, and the composition type of the alchemist in his study. Hollander elaborates on the presence of the window ... 

Recently, the connection between alchemy and art has been rediscovered, with images and processes of alchemy used consciously by artists in their art and as metaphors for the creative process.116 James Elkins of the Chicago Art Institute has written evocatively about what has been lost to the process of painting now that artists no longer make their own colors from natural materials.117 He also describes the artistic process itself as alchemy, asserting that, One of the crucial traits of alchemy, that makes it an apposite metaphor for artistic creation, is the involvement of the observer in the process. 118... 

Letter from Charles L. Elkins, Director, Offices of Toxic Substances, EPA to James E. Remsen of National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers, Inc. (Mar. 27,1990). 

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