Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000 - Brossura

Elkins, James

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ISBN 10: 0804741484 ISBN 13: 9780804741484

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

James Elkins has shaped the discussion about how we—as artists, as art historians, or as outsiders—view art. He has not only revolutionized our thinking about the purpose of teaching art, but has also blazed trails in creating a means of communication between scientists, artists, and humanities scholars. In Six Stories from the End of Representation, Elkins weaves stories about recent images from painting, photography, physics, astrophysics, and microscopy. These images, regardless of origin, all fail as representations: they are blurry, dark, pixellated, or otherwise unclear. In these opaque images, Elkins finds an opportunity to create stories that speak simultaneously to artists and to scientists, and to open both those fields to those of us who have little purchase in either. Regarding each image through the lens of the discipline that produced it, Elkins simultaneously affirms the unique structure of each way of viewing the world and brings those views together into a vibrant conversation.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History,Theory, and Criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago. He has publishednumerous books on subjects ranging from fine art to science and naturalhistory, including Pictures of the Body (Stanford, 1999).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0804741484
• ISBN 13: 9780804741484
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 274