Kenneth Lee’s Reviews > Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present > Status Update

During the "art can be anything" era, championed by Arthur Danto and others, the teaching methods developed from the Renaissance forward were in considerable danger of being lost altogether. The Art Renewal Center, and a handful of artists like Elliott, have done their best to repair the damage. The result, in this case, is what is probably the single best book in English concerning painting in oils.