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* ''What Photography Is'', New York: Routledge, 2012. | * ''What Photography Is'', New York: Routledge, 2012. | ||
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| + | * "Michelangelo and the Human Form: His Knowledge and Use of Anatomy", ''Art History'', no. 7 (1984):176–86. | ||
| + | * "Psychoanalysis and Art History", ''Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought'', no. 9 (1986):261–98. | ||
| + | * "Art History Without Theory", ''Critical Inquiry'', no. 14 (1988): 354–78. | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* [http://www.jameselkins.com/ Official webpage] | * [http://www.jameselkins.com/ Official webpage] | ||
Revision as of 11:37, 10 December 2013
James Elkins (born 13 October 1955) is an American art historian and art critic. He teach art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His writing focuses on the history and theory of images in art, science, and nature. Some of his books are exclusively on fine art (What Painting Is, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?). Others include scientific and non-art images, writing systems, and archaeology (The Domain of Images, On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them), and some are about natural history (How to Use Your Eyes). His most recent books are What Photography Is, written against Roland Barthes'sCamera Lucida, and Art Critiques: A Guide [1].
Literature
- Books
- The Poetics of Perspective, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.
- The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
- Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing, University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1997.
- On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- What Painting Is, New York: Routledge, 1998.
- Why are Our Pictures Puzzles? On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity ,New York: Routledge, 1999.
- The Domain of Images, On the Historical Study of Visual Artifacts, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
- Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
- How to Use Your Eyes, New York: Routledge, 2000.
- Why Art Cannot be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
- Stories of Art, New York: Routledge, 2002.
- Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction, New York: Routledge, 2003.
- What Happened to Art Criticism?, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.
- On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, New York: Routledge, 2004.
- What Photography Is, New York: Routledge, 2012.
- Articles
- "Michelangelo and the Human Form: His Knowledge and Use of Anatomy", Art History, no. 7 (1984):176–86.
- "Psychoanalysis and Art History", Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, no. 9 (1986):261–98.
- "Art History Without Theory", Critical Inquiry, no. 14 (1988): 354–78.
