James Elkins Books
What is an Image?
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Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures, and paintings are conceptualized. Issues discussed include concepts such as "ima...
Read MoreBeyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic
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Gathers historians, philosophers, critics, curators, and artists to explore the divisions in teaching, practice, and theorization of art created by the choice between continuations of Modernism, wi...
Read MoreFarewell to Visual Studies
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A transdisciplinary collection of essays discussing the identity, nature, and future of visual studies as a laboratory for thinking about relations between fields including art history, cultural st...
Read MoreFarewell to Visual Studies
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A transdisciplinary collection of essays discussing the identity, nature, and future of visual studies as a laboratory for thinking about relations between fields including art history, cultural st...
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