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...

This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies. Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and...

„What Painting Is“ von James Elkins ist ein faszinierendes Buch, das die Kunst des Malens aus einer einzigartigen Perspektive betrachtet. Elkins, selbst Kunsthistoriker und Maler, vergleicht den Prozess des Malens mit der Alchemie. Er...

"A PhD in art is inevitable. Elkins argues, and so best to explore the implications of this seemingly inevitable development. By bringing in a variety of perspectives. Elkins provides a rich mosaic of opinions, detailed argumentation and...

Acclaimed author, James Elkins, presents a road map of the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. He takes the reader down a side road where visual studies becomes a more interesting...

We live in a world saturated in images, and yet a university education is still overwhelmingly linguistic and mathematical. Art history and visual studies, the two disciplines that study images, still work mainly with fine art and mass...

The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing is the most globally informed book on world art history, drawing on research in 76 countries. In addition some chapters have been crowd sourced: posted on the internet for comments, which...

Perspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. In the first book to bring together recent thinking on perspective from such fields as art history, literary theory, aesthetics,...