James Elkins

A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Masterly... This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of

"Weak in Comparison to Dreams... is the most courageous and fascinating debut I have read since Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves." —Full Stop Mag

Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly 500 colonial subjects, Britain's empire was the largest empire in human histor

Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, curators, artists, and educators to ask how art is and should be taught. Explores the theories that

Brings together the work of major visual studies critics including W J T Mitchell, Barbara Stafford, Jonathan Crary, and James Elkins to explore what

Raising interesting issues, and answering questions, this collection presents over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers who discuss the quest

Raising interesting issues, and answering questions, this collection presents over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers who discuss the quest

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

Photography Theory presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan

In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explore

In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explore

Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one a

This book is about the disconnection between spirituality and current art.

This book is about the curious disconnection between spirituality and current art.

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? Or in the developed West and in Asia or in deve

Featuring contributions from the world's prominent and widely-travelled art history scholars, this third volume in "The Art Seminar" deals with art an

In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond thei

Elkins argues that the intricate meanings that are assigned to pictures are less a matter of insight than a symptom of our culture - a kind of excessi

Drawing on analyses of texts by Derrida, Deleuze and other leading critics, as well as illustrations of artworks from various cultures, this book exam

In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always t