James Elkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Elkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Elkins |
| SIGNATURE | ELKINS J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Art and Globalization
The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing
Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
Preface James Elkins and Maria Pia Di Bella Part 1: Expressive Pain Introduction James Elkins 1. Sculpture and Pathognomics in Classical France Tomas Macsotay 2. The Faked Pain of the Artist: Empathy or Sympathy, Compassion or Concealment? Kirstin Ringelberg 3. Empfindnis and Self-Inflicted Pain in Performance Art Helge Meyer 4. Sontag's Regarding and Bataille's Unknowing Louis Kaplan 5. A Painful Labor: Photography and Responsibility Sharon Sliw…
Theorizing Visual Studies
Art and Globalization
"Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how contemporary global art is conceptualized. Issues discussed include globalism and globalization, internationalism and nationality, empire and capitalism"--Provided by publisher.
Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
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 engaging and accessible survey of his personal journey encountering and interpreting Chinese art through Western scholars’ writings. He argues that the search for optimal comparisons is itself a modern, Western interest, and that art history as a discipli…
Visual Practices Across the University
Partisan Canons
Reading Lawyer Films
With the advent of film studies in the United States, there has been a growing interest in legal academic circles in lawyer, legal, and courtroom films. In Professor Elkins's essay, we find a claim that Hollywood lawyer films have pedagogical value.With the emerging interest in lawyer and legal films, there is virtually nothing written about what or how films are to be taught, and what their value might be. Professor Elkins provides the basic axi…
Pictures and Tears
The Domain of Images
In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects—painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking—to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores …
What Do We Want Pictures to Be? Reply to Mieke Bal
The Domain of Images
In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects—painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking—to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores …
Reading Lawyer Films
With the advent of film studies in the United States, there has been a growing interest in legal academic circles in lawyer, legal, and courtroom films. In Professor Elkins's essay, we find a claim that Hollywood lawyer films have pedagogical value.With the emerging interest in lawyer and legal films, there is virtually nothing written about what or how films are to be taught, and what their value might be. Professor Elkins provides the basic axi…
What Do We Want Pictures to Be? Reply to Mieke Bal
The Domain of Images
In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects—painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking—to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores …
Pictures and Tears
Reading Lawyer Films
With the advent of film studies in the United States, there has been a growing interest in legal academic circles in lawyer, legal, and courtroom films. In Professor Elkins's essay, we find a claim that Hollywood lawyer films have pedagogical value.With the emerging interest in lawyer and legal films, there is virtually nothing written about what or how films are to be taught, and what their value might be. Professor Elkins provides the basic axi…
Visual Practices Across the University
Partisan Canons
Art and Globalization
"Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how contemporary global art is conceptualized. Issues discussed include globalism and globalization, internationalism and nationality, empire and capitalism"--Provided by publisher.
Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
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 engaging and accessible survey of his personal journey encountering and interpreting Chinese art through Western scholars’ writings. He argues that the search for optimal comparisons is itself a modern, Western interest, and that art history as a discipli…
Theorizing Visual Studies
Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
Preface James Elkins and Maria Pia Di Bella Part 1: Expressive Pain Introduction James Elkins 1. Sculpture and Pathognomics in Classical France Tomas Macsotay 2. The Faked Pain of the Artist: Empathy or Sympathy, Compassion or Concealment? Kirstin Ringelberg 3. Empfindnis and Self-Inflicted Pain in Performance Art Helge Meyer 4. Sontag's Regarding and Bataille's Unknowing Louis Kaplan 5. A Painful Labor: Photography and Responsibility Sharon Sliw…
The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing
Art and Globalization
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