Author

James Elkins

Website

35 books

Series

Other books

  1. Why Art Cannot be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students 2001
  2. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing 1996
  3. What Painting Is 1998
  4. How to Use Your Eyes 2000
  5. Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings 2001
  6. Stories of Art 2002
  7. What Happened to Art Criticism? 2003
24 more
  1. The World Atlas of Tattoo 2015
  2. The domain of images 1999
  3. Art and Globalization 2010
  4. Visual Studies 2003
  5. Weak in Comparison to Dreams 2023
  6. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity 1999
  7. Pictures of the Body 1999
  8. Visual Literacy 2007
  9. Six Stories from the End of Representation 2008
  10. Theorizing visual studies 2012
  11. Landscape Theory 2007
  12. Master Narratives and Their Discontents 2005
  13. Photography Theory (Art Seminar) 2006
  14. Is Art History Global? (Art Seminar) 2006
  15. Our beautiful, dry, and distant texts 1997
  16. What Do Artists Know? 2012
  17. What Heaven Looks Like 2017
  18. Art critiques 2012
  19. On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art 2004
  20. Photography Theory 2013
  21. On pictures and the words that fail them 1998
  22. Out Of The Darkness 2003
  23. The poetics of perspective 1994
  24. Beyond The Aesthetic And The Antiaesthetic 2013

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  7. Mark Rothko The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art
  8. Barbara Hess Abstract Expressionism

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