James Elkins

45 books

What Photography Is by James Elkins

What Photography Is

James Elkins

222 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction art challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity by James Elkins

Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

James Elkins

320 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction art informative reflective medium-paced
Why Art Cannot be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students by James Elkins

Why Art Cannot be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students

James Elkins

224 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction art education informative reflective slow-paced
The World Atlas of Tattoo by Ole Wittmann, Sebastien Galliot, Matt Lodder, James Elkins, Nick Schonberger, Lars Krutak, Anna Felicity Friedman

The World Atlas of Tattoo

Ole Wittmann, Sebastien Galliot, Matt Lodder, James Elkins, Nick Schonberger, Lars Krutak, Anna Felicity Friedman

400 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction art reference informative medium-paced
Art and Globalization by Zhivka Valiavicharska, Alice Kim, James Elkins

Art and Globalization

Zhivka Valiavicharska, Alice Kim, James Elkins

294 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

medium-paced
Art History Versus Aesthetics by James Elkins

Art History Versus Aesthetics

James Elkins

306 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

art philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art by James Elkins

Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art

James Elkins

292 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

art informative reflective medium-paced
Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History by James Elkins
Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
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James Elkins

Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History

James Elkins

208 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing: North Atlantic Art History and Its Alternatives by James Elkins
The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing: North Atlantic Art History and Its Alternatives
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James Elkins

The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing: North Atlantic Art History and Its Alternatives

James Elkins

240 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history
Farewell to Visual Studies by Sunil Manghani, Gustav Frank, James Elkins

Farewell to Visual Studies

Sunil Manghani, Gustav Frank, James Elkins

288 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced