James Elkins (art critic)
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James Elkins (1954 – ) is an art historian and art critic. He is E.C. Chadbourne Chair of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1] He also coordinates the Stone Summer Theory Institute, a short term school on contemporary art history based at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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[edit] Education
- BA, cum laude, 1977, Cornell University
- MFA and MA, 1983, and PhD with honors, 1989, University of Chicago
[edit] Publications
- Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings[2]
- Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
- Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis
- The Domain of Images
- How to Use Your Eyes[3]
- What Painting Is[4]
- The Poetics of Perspective
- The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing[5]
- Why are our Pictures Puzzles?[6]
- What Happened to Art Criticism?[7]
- Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction
- Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook For Art Students[8]
- Six Stories From the End of Representation
- Stories of Art[9]
- On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art[10]
- On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them[6]
- Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing[6]
- Master Narratives and Their Discontents[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Master Narratives and Their Discontents (Book Review)". Reviewer's Bookwatch (Midwest Book Review). October 1, 2005. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9725087_ITM. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
- ^ Hickling, Alfred (April 20, 2002). "Stealing beauty". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4397376,00.html. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
- ^ "Wait a minute - did you really see that?". The Christian Science Monitor. November 30, 2000. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-67433633.html. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
- ^ "Dental Floss Alchemist". Houston Press. April 5, 2001. http://www.houstonpress.com/2001-04-05/culture/dental-floss-alchemist/. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
- ^ "Elegant vision of eye-mind concepts". The Washington Times. March 17, 1996. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-56824510.html. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c "Close Reading and Looking: Some Recent Books by James Elkins (Review)". Art Journal. June 22, 2000. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-28171699_ITM. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
- ^ Romano, Carlin (April 7, 2004). "There goes the judge in today's art criticism, Critic urges peers to be better before the skill dies". Philadelphia Inquirer. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7658603_ITM. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
- ^ "Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students.(Review)". Publishers Weekly. June 4, 2001. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10640868_ITM. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
- ^ "Artworks Feature: EH Gombrich - Changing the Way We See". Radio National. July 6, 2008. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/artworks/stories/2008/2245331.htm. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
- ^ "On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art (Book Review)". Wisconsin Bookwatch (Midwest Book Review). November 1, 2004. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-1069809_ITM. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
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