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James Elkins' superbly strange novel is one that challenges readers to wonder, through a collision of literature and design, science and art, and psychology and humor, what it means for something to be true, and what meaning, ultimately, lies in truth.Samuel Emmer, who monitors bacteria levels in drinking water for the small city of Guelph, has just been appointed to the city's Zoo Feasibility Committee. His big assignment: travel to zoos arou...

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 abo...

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The Impending Single History of Art is the most globally informed book on world art history, drawing on research in 76 countries. Inaddition some chapters have been crowd sourced: posted on the internet for comments, which have been incorporated into the text. It covers the principal accounts of Eurocentrism, center and margins, circulations and atlases of art, decolonial theory, incommensurate cultures, the origins and dissemination of the "O...

This original history of art opens up the questions that traditional art history usually avoids. Written by an acclaimed author, the book includes Western and non-Western artworks and diagrams of how artworks might connect through a single individual

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Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian, this anniversary edition includes a new introduction and preface by Elkins in which he further reflects on the experience of painting and its role in the study of art today.

This is a book about how art history is written. It includes detailed analyses of a dozen important texts, and theories about what counts as "interesting" or "experimental" writing on art. There are chapters on texts by Rosalind Krauss, T.J. Clark, Alexander Nemerov, Gilles Deleuze, Helene Cixous, Leo Steinberg, Jean-Louis Schefer, and others, a chapter on institutions that teach experimental writing on art, analyses of rival concepts of the e...

Examining the rival theories of modernism and postmodernism, and including a survey of ideas about the relation of modern art to skill and politics, this is the first book to gather the principal authors and theories of twentieth-century art history

The centerpiece of "Visual Studies" is Elkins's proposal for ten ways in which visual studies could be made more challenging - theoretically, practically and in terms of its interpretative and historical range.

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.

An 1998 art historical study of the way in which images and words differ as 'signs'.

This third volume in "The Art Seminar" is essential reading on art and visual studies with contributions from the worlds¿ most prominent and widely-travelled art history scholars.

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Art historian James Elkins tells the story of paintings that have made people cry. Deeply personal, this book is a history of emotion and vulnerability, and an inquiry into the nature of art