James Elkins | Bookhype

James Elkins teaches in the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. A recent book is What Heaven Looks Like, which ponders a mysterious eighteenth-century manuscript as if it were a contemporary artwork. Since Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History, he has been at work on an experimental novel – something that takes longer than a monograph to complete.

Contact: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 36 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, USA.

Dec 5, 2023

Cover of Weak in Comparison to Dreams

Weak in Comparison to Dreams

Dec 7, 2020

Cover of The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing

The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing

Feb 17, 2020

Cover of Visual Worlds

Oct 5, 2017

Cover of What Heaven Looks Like

What Heaven Looks Like

Aug 9, 2017

Cover of What is Interesting Writing in Art History?

What is Interesting Writing in Art History?

Jan 1, 2013

Cover of Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction

Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction

Nov 1, 2011

Cover of Art Critiques

Aug 1, 2010

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Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History

Jan 1, 2010

Cover of Visual Cultures

Visual Cultures

Aug 1, 2009

Cover of What Photography Is

What Photography Is

Sep 15, 2008

Cover of Re-Enchantment

Re-Enchantment (Art Seminar, #7)

Feb 8, 2008

Cover of Six Stories from the End of Representation

Six Stories from the End of Representation (Writing Science)

Jan 1, 2008

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Renaissance Theory (Art Seminar)

Dec 13, 2006

Cover of Is Art History Global?

Is Art History Global? (Art Seminar)

Sep 2006

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Margaret Corcoran

Aug 16, 2005

Cover of Master Narratives and their Discontents

Master Narratives and their Discontents (Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts)

Jan 1, 2005

Cover of Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell

Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell

Jan 1, 2004

Cover of On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

Nov 1, 2003

Cover of What Happened to Art Criticism?

What Happened to Art Criticism? (Prickly Paradigm)

Aug 14, 2003

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Jun 2, 2003

Cover of After & Before - Documenting the A-bomb

After & Before - Documenting the A-bomb

Jun 1, 2003

Cover of The Drunken Conversation between Science and Painting

The Drunken Conversation between Science and Painting

Jun 1, 2003

Cover of Marco Breuer

Sep 27, 2002

Cover of Stories of Art