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Artists with PHDS
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AUD$57.96;
Book - Paperback;
A PhD in art is inevitable, Elkins argues, and so best to explore the implications of this seemingly inevitable development. Adopting that constructively critical approach surely is the best way to...
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Chinese Landscape Painting As Western Art History
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AUD$82.29;
Book - Hardcover;
This is a provocative essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art as done by towering figures in the field such as James Cahill and Wen Fong. James Elkins offers an...
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HT Use Your Eyes
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AUD$90.87;
Book - Paperback;
... visually stunning and mentally stimulating.-Scientific American ...the author of What Painting Is (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire...
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On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
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AUD$73.36;
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For millennia, art has been religious - even in times and places when there was no word for 'art'. Then, in the Renaissance, it became possible for art to glorify the artist, making viewers think...
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Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts
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AUD$73.36;
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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,...
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Pictures and Tears
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AUD$73.36;
Book - Paperback;
Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James...
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Stories of Art
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AUD$73.36;
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Stories of Art is Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so...
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The Domain of Images
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AUD$55.95;
Book - Paperback;
In the domain of visual images, those from fine art form a tiny minority. This brilliantly original book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects -- painting, drawing,...
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The Object Stares Back
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AUD$19.77;
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A study on how our eyes function with our brains examines the irrational elements of physical sight and concludes that human seeing transforms both the viewer and the object being viewed
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The State of Art Criticism
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AUD$245.70;
Book - Hardcover;
Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international...
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The State of Art Criticism
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AUD$73.36;
Book - Paperback;
Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international...
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Visual Literacy
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AUD$245.70;
Book - Hardcover;
What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? Or in the developed West and in Asia or in developing nations? If we all need to become...
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Visual Studies
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AUD$73.36;
Book - Paperback;
In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. Then, with the skill and insight that have...
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What Happened to Religion Art
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AUD$245.70;
Book - Hardcover;
For millennia, art has been religious - even in times and places when there was no word for 'art'. Then, in the Renaissance, it became possible for art to glorify the artist, making viewers think...
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What Painting Is
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AUD$69.81;
Book - Paperback;
In What Painting Is , James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a magical language to explore what it is a painter really...
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Why Art Cannot Be Taught
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AUD$38.62;
Book - Paperback;
In this smart survival guide for students and teachers - the only book of its kind - James Elkins examines the curious endeavor to teach the unteachable that is generally known as college-level art...
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