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 can be taught, but nobody knows quite how." "Art can be taught, but it seems as if it can't be since so few students become outstanding artists." "Art cannot be taught, but it can be fostered or helped along." "Art cannot be taught or even nourished, but it is possible to teach right...
In this smart survival guide for students and teachers--the only book of its kind--James Elkins examines the "curious endeavor to teach the unteachabl...
This forward-thinking collection brings together over 60 essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighbouring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics.
This forward-thinking collection brings together over 60 essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighbo...
Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them all is one way to hear the multiple stories that art tells. But each of us also has our own story of art, a kind of private art history made up of the pieces we have seen, and loved or hated, the effects they had on us, and the connections...
Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art hist...
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 scholarship, but issues of concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a virtual roundtable discussion, the contributors discuss rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debate the principal texts and authors of the last thirty years who have sought to...
Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links ...
In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. Then, with the skill and insight that have marked his successful books on art and visuality, Elkins takes the reader down a side road where visual studies can become a more interesting place. Why look only at the same handful of theorists? Why exclude from one's field of vision non-Western art or the wealth of scientific images?
In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical so...
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 history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject.
Contributors include Dave Hickey, James Panero, Stephen Melville, Lynne Cook, Michael Newman, Whitney Davis, Irit Rogoff, Guy Brett and Boris Groys.
Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. Th...
..". visually stunning and mentally stimulating." Scientific American
" the author of What Painting Is (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us to learn to see anything. It's a tall order, to be sure, but one that the author pulls off admirably .How to Use Your Eyes is a wondrous visual tour that Elkins hopes will help us learn to use our eyes more concertedly until the details of the world slowly reveal themselves. Readers will be inspired to stop and smell--nay, see--the roses."
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..". visually stunning and mentally stimulating." Scientific American
" the author of What Painting Is (1998) has written a fascinating new book...
