Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts - Couverture souple

Elkins, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415926637 ISBN 13 : 9780415926638

Editeur : Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection - and therefore deserving of serious consideration for its own sake, as the testament of art history and of individual historians. Elkins asks such questions as: How do various art historical approaches represent works of art? What can they see, and what must they miss? And what insight does such writing offer us about ourselves? Drawing on analyses of texts by Derrida, Deleuze and other leading critics, as well as illustrations of artworks from various cultures, Elkins constructs an eloquent plea for circumspection in the entire endeavour of trying to force images into words and in the curious vocation of writing the history of art.

Biographie de l'auteur :

James Elkins is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including How to Use Your Eyes (1999), What Painting Is (1998), and Why are Our Pictures Puzzles? (1999), all published by Routledge.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415926637
• ISBN 13: 9780415926638
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 326