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Stories of Art
Av James Elkins
E-bok, 2024
731 kr
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A thoughtful, engaging, and intimate history of art that offers a critical analysis of the assumptions on which the entire discipline of art history depends. Concise and original, this accessible second edition continues to act as an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks of the past. …
Stories of Art
Av James Elkins
E-bok, 2024
731 kr
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A thoughtful, engaging, and intimate history of art that offers a critical analysis of the assumptions on which the entire discipline of art history depends. Concise and original, this accessible second edition continues to act as an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks of the past. …
State of Art Criticism
Av James Elkins, Michael Newman
Häftad, 2007
652 kr
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Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art …
Stories of Art
Av James Elkins
Häftad, 2024
624 kr
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A thoughtful, engaging, and intimate history of art that offers a critical analysis of the assumptions on which the entire discipline of art history depends.Concise and original, this accessible second edition continues to act as an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks of the past. …
Weak in Comparison to Dreams
Av James Elkins
Inbunden, 2024
461 kr
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"Weak in Comparison to Dreams... is the most courageous and fascinating debut I have read since Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves." —Full Stop MagazineFor years, Samuel Emmer has monitored bacteria levels in drinking water for the small city of Guelph.He is content to focus on dangerous …
Short Introduction to Anneliese
Av James Elkins
Inbunden, 2025
313 kr
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A Short Introduction to Anneliese is the second volume in author James Elkins’ multi-volume mega-novel Five Strange Languages being published by Unnamed Press, all of which trace the final year of Samuel Emmer’s life before he disappears. When Samuel Emmer meets unemployed biologist Anneliese Glur …
What Is an Image?
Inbunden, 2011
1094 kr
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What Is an Image? raises the stakes for writing in art history, visual studies, art theory, and art criticism by questioning one of the most fundamental terms of all, the image or picture. This innovative collection gathers some of the most influential historians and theorists working on images to …
Landscape Theory
Häftad, 2007
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635 kr
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Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple …
Art History Versus Aesthetics
Av James Elkins
Häftad, 2005
631 kr
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In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein ponder the disconnect between these two disciplines. The volume has a radically innovative structure: it …
Why Art Cannot Be Taught
A Handbook for Art Students
Av James Elkins
Häftad, 2001
329 kr
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In this smart survival guide for students and teachers--the only book of its kind--James Elkins examines the "curious endeavor to teach the unteachable" that is generally known as college-level art instruction. This singular project is organized around a series of conflicting claims about art: "Art …
Why Art Cannot Be Taught
A Handbook for Art Students
Av James Elkins
E-bok, 2001
487 kr
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In this smart survival guide for students and teachers--the only book of its kind--James Elkins examines the "curious endeavor to teach the unteachable" that is generally known as college-level art instruction. This singular project is organized around a series of conflicting claims about art: "Art …
Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts
Art History as Writing
Av James Elkins
Inbunden, 1997
1343 kr
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How do psychoanalytic, semiotic, deconstructive, and other interpretations represent works of art? What can they see, and what must they miss? In Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts, Elkins suggests that the philosophic problems posed by these questions are essentially insuperable because …
Art and Globalization
Av James Elkins, Zhivka Valiavicharska m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
514 kr
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The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcolonial …
What Is an Image?
Häftad, 2012
479 kr
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What Is an Image? raises the stakes for writing in art history, visual studies, art theory, and art criticism by questioning one of the most fundamental terms of all, the image or picture. This innovative collection gathers some of the most influential historians and theorists working on images to …
What Do Artists Know?
Av James Elkins
Häftad, 2015
479 kr
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Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation” …
Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic
Av James Elkins, Harper Montgomery
Häftad, 2013
600 kr
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Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation” …
Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
Av Maria Pia Di Bella, James Elkins
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwined with such themes, from the central images of the Passion to the representations of bloody martyrdoms. The remnants of this tradition are evident in …
Theorizing Visual Studies
Writing Through the Discipline
Av James Elkins, Kristi McGuire m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2736 kr
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This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a …
Theorizing Visual Studies
Writing Through the Discipline
Av James Elkins, Kristi McGuire m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
820 kr
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This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a …
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?
On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity
Av James Elkins
Häftad, 1999
789 kr
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With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? uses three models to understand the kinds of complex meaning that pictures are thought to …
Pictures and Tears
A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
Av James Elkins
Inbunden, 2001
2658 kr
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Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that? In Pictures and Tears, art historian James …
Visual Literacy
Av James Elkins
Inbunden, 2007
2818 kr
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What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually literate," what does that mean in practical terms? The essays gathered here examine a host of issues surrounding …
Visual Literacy
Av James Elkins
Häftad, 2007
725 kr
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What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually literate," what does that mean in practical terms? The essays gathered here examine a host of issues surrounding …
Renaissance Theory
Av James Elkins, Robert Williams
Inbunden, 2008
2504 kr
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Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance …
Renaissance Theory
Av James Elkins, Robert Williams
Häftad, 2008
635 kr
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Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance …
Re-Enchantment
Häftad, 2008
631 kr
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The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, …
Landscape Theory
Inbunden, 2007
2594 kr
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Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple …
