On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

By James Elkins

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that...

Published August 31st 2004 by Routledge.

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Pictures and Tears

A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

By James Elkins

Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to...

Published February 23rd 2004 by Routledge.

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Stories of Art

By James Elkins

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks...

Published September 27th 2002 by Routledge.

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Race-ing Art History

Critical Readings in Race and Art History

Edited by Kymberly N. Pinder

Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Within these pages are representations of...

Published August 9th 2002 by Routledge.

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Albrecht Durer

A Guide to Research

By Jane Campbell Hutchison

Published August 3rd 2000 by Routledge.

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Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?

On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

By James Elkins

With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had...

Published January 28th 1999 by Routledge.

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