266 Pages
25 Color & 39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
266 Pages
25 Color & 39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
266 Pages
25 Color & 39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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A thoughtful, engaging, and intimate history of art that offers a critical analysis of the assumptions on which the entire discipline of art history depends.
Concise and original, this accessible second edition continues to act as an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks of the past. Cultures have their own stories – about themselves, about other cultures – and to hear them... Read more
1. Intuitive Stories 2. Old European Stories 3. New European and American Stories 4. Non-European Stories 5. Fixing Things 6. Seven Proposals
Biography
James Elkins is Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. He is the author and editor of many books on art and visual culture, including Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction (2003), Visual Literacy (2007), How to Use Your Eyes (2008), What Photography Is (2011), and What Painting Is, 2nd Edition (2019).
