Bøker av James (School of the Art Institute of Chicago Elkins

A study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and Slovenia. It also raises and explores issues of national identity, and provides information for future research.

Drawing on analyses of texts by Derrida, Deleuze and other leading critics, as well as illustrations of artworks from various cultures, this book examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection.

This book is about the curious disconnection between spirituality and current art.

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

James Elkins tells the story of paintings that have made people cry. Drawing upon anecdotes related to individual works of art, he provides a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art

James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources.

Elkins argues that the intricate meanings that are assigned to pictures are less a matter of insight than a symptom of our culture - a kind of excessive desire for understanding and a demand for clear solutions.