James Elkins (art historian)

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Name James Elkins Role Art critic		Education University of Chicago

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James elkins on the strange place of religion in contemporary art

James Elkins (born 1955) is an American art historian and art critic. He is E.C. Chadbourne Chair of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also coordinates the Stone Summer Theory Institute, a short term school on contemporary art history based at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

BA, cum laude, 1977, Cornell University

MFA and MA, 1983, and PhD with honors, 1989, University of Chicago

Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History

Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis

The Domain of Images

How to Use Your Eyes

What Painting Is

The Poetics of Perspective

The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing

Why are our Pictures Puzzles?

What Happened to Art Criticism?

Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction

Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook For Art Students

Six Stories From the End of Representation

Stories of Art

On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them

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

Master Narratives and Their Discontents

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