What Is Painting?: "Winslow Homer" and Other Essays

by Kenyon Cox, Gene Thornton (Introduction)

“Kenyon Cox’s insistence that painters be able to paint will strike the contemporary art world as a piece of foaming radical heresy.” ―Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities Is there a true classical mode that strains of Western painting have followed since Greek and Roman antiquity? Kenyon Cox thought so and argues his point persuasively throughout this book, as he did in the The Classic Point of View (a Classical America reissue).

Genres: Art

400 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1988

About the author

Kenyon Cox (October 27, 1856 – March 17, 1919) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, writer, and teacher. Cox was an influential and important early instructor at the Art Students League of New York. He was the designer of the League's logo, whose motto is Nulla Dies Sine Linea or No Day Without a Line.

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