Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing - Brossura

Elkins, James

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ISBN 10: 0415926637 ISBN 13: 9780415926638

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

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.

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Book by Elkins James

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415926637
• ISBN 13: 9780415926638
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 326