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James Elkins

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago
    Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism
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  • All publications (43)
  •  1408
    Whitney Davis's General Theory of Visual Culture (review)
    College Art Association Books Reviews. 2012.
    This is a brief essay on Whitney Davis's book. A shorter version, edited down by the College Art Association, is on their online book reviews site (protected by a paywall).
    Visual Arts
  •  72
    What is an Image? (edited book)
    with Maja Naef
    Pennsylvania State University Press. 2011.
    Issues discussed include concepts such as "image" and "picture" in and outside the West; semiotics; whether images are products of discourse; religious meanings; and the ethics of viewing"--Provided by publisher.
    Aesthetics
  •  93
    On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (4): 471-473. 1999.
    Depiction
  •  55
    Art School Critiques as Seductions
    The Journal of Aesthetic Education 26 (1): 105. 1992.
    Aesthetics
  •  34
    The "Fundamental Concepts" of Pictures
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 6 (2). 1992.
    Continental PhilosophyPoststructuralism
  • Different horizons for the concept of the image
    Zeitschrift für Ästhetik Und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 43 (1): 29-46. 1998.
  •  1219
    What does Peirce's Sign System Have to Say to Art History?
    Culture, Theory, and Critique 44 (1): 5-22. 2003.
    Peirce is far too strange for the uses to which he is put in art history. This is a plea to art historians for a moratorium on Peirce citations.
    Charles Sanders PeirceLogic and Philosophy of Logic, Misc
  •  115
    Metonymy and Transition in Carrier's Writing
    with R. Kuhns, Ac Danto, and D. Carrier
    The Journal of Aesthetic Education 32 (4): 35. 1998.
    Philosophy of Literature, Misc
  •  116
    Precision, Misprecision, Misprision
    Critical Inquiry 25 (1): 169-180. 1998.
  •  76
    A Thought Experiment, for a Book to Be Called "Failure in Twentieth-Century Art"
    The Journal of Aesthetic Education 32 (4): 43. 1998.
  •  75
    Ten Reasons Why E. H. Gombrich is not Connected to Art History
    Human Affairs 19 (3): 304-310. 2009.
    Ten Reasons Why E. H. Gombrich is not Connected to Art History This is a speculative essay on the place of E. H. Gombrich in art history. Gombrich is universally known, and still often studied at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is indispensable for the historiography of the discipline. But at the same time, he is not often cited, and his work is not usually part of the ongoing conversations of the current state of art history or visual studies. This brief essay questions that condition…Read more
    Ten Reasons Why E. H. Gombrich is not Connected to Art History This is a speculative essay on the place of E. H. Gombrich in art history. Gombrich is universally known, and still often studied at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is indispensable for the historiography of the discipline. But at the same time, he is not often cited, and his work is not usually part of the ongoing conversations of the current state of art history or visual studies. This brief essay questions that condition.
  •  105
    Logic and images in art history
    Perspectives on Science 7 (2): 151-180. 1999.
    : This essay is an attempt to see how some of Galison's ideas and analyses look from the vantage of art history. If there's to be dialogue between the history of science and the history of art, it will be necessary to find historically recognizable senses for words like "logic" and "homologous." I also propose how Galison's kinds of images might fit into larger classifications of images known to the history of art
    Philosophy of HistoryAesthetic Cognition
  •  65
    Aesthetics and the two cultures : why art and science should be allowed to go their separate ways
    In Francis Halsall, Julia Jansen & Tony O’Connor (eds.), Rediscovering Aesthetics: Transdisciplinary Voices from Art History, Philosophy, and Art Practice, Stanford University Press. pp. 34-50. 2008.
    AestheticsHistory of Aesthetics
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