Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing by James Elkins

Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing

James Elkins

312 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction historical philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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How do psychoanalytic, semiotic, deconstructive, and other interpretations represent works of art? What can they see, and what must they miss? In Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts, Elkins suggests that the philosophic problems posed by these q...

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