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

About the author

James Elkins is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His books include The Poetics of Perspective (1996) and The Object Stares Back (1997).

Summary

How do psychoanalytic, semiotic, deconstructive, and other interpretations represent works of art? The author suggests in this book that the philosophic problems posed by this question and others are insuperable. He argues that art history as writing must be taken seriously for its own sake.

Product details

• Authors: James Elkins, Elkins James
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1997
• EAN: 9780271016306
• ISBN: 978-0-271-01630-6
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 1048 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Historiography, ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art / art & design styles, Historiography, History of Art