James Elkins

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James Elkins is affiliated with the following schools: Duke University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, National University of Ireland, University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Cornell University

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#772

Historical Rank

#237

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#87

World Rank

#115

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#27

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James Elkins 's Degrees

PhD Art History University of Chicago
Masters Art History University of Chicago
Bachelors Art History Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, James Elkins 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.

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James Elkins 's Published Works

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Published Works

The domain of images (1999) (224)
The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing (1996) (146)
Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction (2003) (137)
The Poetics of Perspective (1994) (134)
Artists with PhDs : On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art (2009) (97)
Pictures of the body : pain and metamorphosis (1999) (94)
On pictures and the words that fail them (1998) (94)
Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings (2001) (80)
Is art history global (2007) (79)
What Painting Is (1998) (72)
Art History and Images That Are Not Art (1995) (62)
Why Art Cannot Be Taught (2001) (59)
What Photography Is (2011) (52)
Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students (2015) (48)
What happened to art criticism (2003) (46)
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity (1999) (38)
The State of Art Criticism (1972) (35)
Introduction: The Concept of Visual Literacy, and Its Limitations (2009) (33)
Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000 (2008) (33)
Stories of Art (2002) (31)
Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing (1997) (29)
Art History without Theory (1988) (27)
Marks, Traces, "Traits," Contours, "Orli," and "Splendores": Nonsemiotic Elements in Pictures (1995) (25)
What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting Using the Language of Alchemy (2019) (24)
Visual Studies (2013) (24)
Visual Practices Across the University (2010) (20)
Preface to the book A Skeptical Introduction to Visual Culture (2002) (19)
On the Impossibility of Close Reading: The Case of Alexander Marshack (1996) (18)
How to Use Your Eyes (2000) (18)
Theorizing Visual Studies : Writing Through the Discipline (2012) (17)
Art History Versus Aesthetics (2005) (17)
Corporations and the Criminal Law: An Uneasy Alliance (1976) (17)
Master Narratives and Their Discontents (2005) (16)
The art seminar (2007) (15)
Michelangelo and the human form: his knowledge and use of anatomy. (1984) (15)
On the conceptual analysis of gardens (1993) (15)
The Legal Persona: An Essay on the Professional Mask (1978) (15)
Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art history (2010) (14)
Art History as a Global Discipline (2013) (14)
What does Peirce's sign theory have to say to art history? (2003) (13)
Canon and Globalization in Art History (2007) (12)
Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic (2015) (11)
On Visual Desperation and the Bodies of Protozoa (1992) (11)
Did Leonardo Develop a Theory of Curvilinear Perspective?: Together with Some Remarks on the 'Angle' and 'Distance' Axioms (1988) (11)
On the impossibility of stories: the anti-narrative and non-narrative impulse in modern painting (1991) (11)
What Do Artists Know (2015) (10)
Two Conceptions of the Human Form: Bernard Siegfried Albinus and Andreas Vesalius (1986) (10)
ON MONSTROUSLY AMBIGUOUS PAINTINGS (1993) (10)
Digital Culture and the Practices of Art and Art History (1997) (9)
Piero della Francesca and the Renaissance Proof of Linear Perspective (1987) (9)
Six Stories from the End of Representation (2008) (9)
Art and Globalization (2010) (9)
Theoretical Remarks on Combined Creative and Scholarly PhD Degrees in the Visual Arts (2004) (9)
FROM ORIGINAL TO COPY AND BACK AGAIN (1993) (9)
Art History and the Criticism of Computer-Generated Images (2017) (9)
2 Aesthetics and the Two Cultures Why Art and Science Should Be Allowed to Go Their Separate Ways (2008) (9)
The Quest for Meaning: Narrative Accounts of Legal Education. (1988) (9)
What are we seeing, exactly? (1997) (8)
On the Arnolfini Portrait and the Lucca Madonna: Did Jan van Eyck Have a Perspectival System? (1991) (7)
Representations of pain in art and visual culture (2013) (7)
Art Critiques: A Guide (2011) (7)
The Three Configurations of Studio-Art PhDs (2009) (6)
There are no philosophic problems raised by virtual reality (1994) (6)
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles (1999) (6)
Photography Theory (Art Seminar) (2006) (6)
The Art Seminar: Landscape Theory (2008) (6)
Parallel Art History/Studio Program (1995) (6)
The Very Theory of Transgression: Bataille, Lingchi, and Surrealism (2004) (6)
Farewell to Visual Studies (2015) (5)
Counseling Model for Lawyering in Divorce Cases (1977) (5)
Responses to Mieke Bal's `Visual Essentialism and the Object of Visual Culture' (2003) (2003) (5)
Popular Culture, Legal Films, and Legal Film Critics (2007) (5)
Critical Response: What Do We Want Photography to Be? A Response to Michael Fried (2005) (5)
Visual Practices across the University: A Report (2011) (4)
What Do We Want Pictures to Be? Reply to Mieke Bal (1996) (4)
Harold's Edgerton's Rapatronic photographs of atomic tests (2004) (4)
Writing About Modernist Painting Outside Western Europe and North America (2010) (4)
Logic and Images in Art History (1999) (4)
Moral Discourse and Legalism in Legal Education. (1982) (4)
What really happens in pictures? Misreading with Nelson Goodman (1993) (4)
The Stories We Tell Ourselves in Law. (1990) (3)
Pictures of the Body (1999) (3)
What is Radical Writing in Visual Studies? (2018) (3)
THE CASE AGAINST SURFACE GEOMETRY (1991) (3)
The failed and the inadvertent: art history and the concept of the unconscious. (1994) (3)
Ten Reasons Why E. H. Gombrich is not Connected to Art History (2009) (3)
Coping strategies in legal education (1982) (3)
Visual Culture: First Draft@@@Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art (2003) (3)
Logic and Images in Art History1 (1999) (2)
Art School Critiques as Seductions (1992) (2)
Who Owns Images: Science or Art? (2001) (2)
A Humanistic Perspective in Legal Education (1983) (2)
What is an Image (2011) (2)
Becoming a Lawyer: The Transformation of Self during Legal Education. (1983) (2)
What does Peirce's Sign System Have to Say to Art History? (2003) (2)
Reading Lawyer Films (2006) (2)
Precision, Misprecision, Misprision (1998) (2)
The Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals: A Study in the Abdication of Judicial Responsibility (1978) (2)
Ethics: Professionalism, Craft, and Failure (1985) (2)
Response: The Mottled Discourse of Chinese Studies (2007) (2)
Plucking at a Popular Tune (2002) (2)
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? Some Thoughts on Writing Excessively (1996) (2)
The Question of the Body in Mesoamerican Art (1994) (1)
Abstraction's Sense of History: Frank Stella's "Working Space" Revisited (1993) (1)
First Introduction (2021) (1)
A History of the Novel Without Literary Theory: Notes on Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 (2017) (1)
What Painting Is@@@The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing@@@Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing@@@On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them@@@How to Use Your Eyes (2002) (1)
The Snap of Rhetoric: A Catechism for Art History (1992) (1)
Two forms of judgement: forgiving and demanding (2004) (1)
Between Picture and Proposition: Torturing Paintings in Wittgenstein's "Tractatus.". (1996) (1)
Reply to Ellen Handler Spitz (2014) (1)
Why Nothing Can Be Accomplished in Painting, and Why It Is Important to Keep Trying (2004) (1)
The Very Strange Photographs in Kobo Abe's Very Strange "Box Man" (2017) (1)
James Elkins. Review of "The Germans and Their Art : A Troublesome Relationship" by Hans Belting and Scott Kleager. (1999) (1)
"Developing a twenty-first-century perspective on the Renaissance," in Renaissance Theory (2008) (1)
A Thought Experiment, for a Book to Be Called "Failure in Twentieth-Century Art" (1998) (1)
Response to Tomás García Salgado (1996) (1)
Clarification, Destruction, and Negation of Pictorial Space in the Age of Neoclassicism, 1750-1840 (1990) (1)
How Some Scholars Deal with the Question (2004) (1)
Book Review: A Theory of Criminal Justice (1979) (1)
On the Unimportance of Alchemy in Western painting (1992) (1)
Four Ways of Measuring the Distance Between Alchemy and Contemporary Art (2003) (1)
The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing (2020) (1)
Atreyee Gupta and Sugata Ray (2013) (0)
The first illustrated novel: Georges Rodenbach's "Bruges-la-morte" (2017) (0)
Images of Art and Science in Christian Bok's "Crystallography" (2017) (0)
On the Possibility of Teaching the Reader Chinese (I.e., Including a New Language): On Harry Mathews's The Journalist (2017) (0)
Open to Criticism (2000) (0)
Images in Andre Breton's "Nadja" (2017) (0)
James Elkins. Review of "Dali’s Optical Illusions" by Dawn Ades. (2000) (0)
On the Limits of Wit and of Plotting in Maximalist Novels: Notes on Sergio De la Pava, Naked Singularity (2017) (0)
A Hagiography of Bugs and Leaves: On the Dishonesty of Pictured Religion1 (1998) (0)
How Philosophical Fiction Works Against Fiction: Notes on DeLillo's Point Omega (2017) (0)
Is Art History Global? PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation of CVISION PDFCompressor (2011) (0)
Barbara Maria Stafford (2013) (0)
The State of Irish Art History (2003) (0)
The seminars: public and private (2011) (0)
What is alchemical history (1995) (0)
Blots and Traits , Marks and Dots : Toward a Visual Semiotic (2008) (0)
Chapter One The Re Enchantment Of The World (2021) (0)
The Homonymic Curtain (2015) (0)
Interview with James Elkins (2015) (0)
Reviews (2003) (0)
The State of Art History in Ireland, Revisited (2006) (0)
The beautiful reddish light of the philosopher’s stone (2019) (0)
Incoherences of the Art World (2012) (0)
David J. Getsy (2012) (0)
DIFFERENT HORIZONS FOR THE CONCEPT OF THE IMAGE (1998) (0)
On Late Romanticism in Fiction: Peter Handke's "Slow Homecoming" (2017) (0)
What Heaven Looks Like: Comments on a Strange Wordless Book (2017) (0)
What Happens When Constrained Writing Doesn't Follow Its Constraints? Notes on Alejandro Zambra, Multiple Choice (2017) (0)
A Very Brief History of Religion in Art (2004) (0)
A short course in forgetting chemistry (2019) (0)
The Prehistory of Constrained Writing: Thoughts on Michel Butor's "Degrees, A Novel" (2017) (0)
The studio as a kind of psychosis (2019) (0)
Supplement for Judgement and Contemporary Art Criticism (2009) (0)
The "Finnegans Wake of Russia," And Its Translation Problems: On Sasha Sokolov's "Between Dog and Wolf" (2017) (0)
CONSIDER THE SCYTHIAN LAMB or borometz, a creature that lived (2016) (0)
What it Means to Write a Novel After Novels Have Ended: Thoughts on Bolano's "By Night in Chile" (2017) (0)
All My Friends Are Becoming Strangers: The Psychological Perspective in Legal Education (2019) (0)
Images Without Sense (2012) (0)
On A Lack of Ambition: Notes on Laszlo Krasznahorkai, The Last Wolf (2017) (0)
On Some Useless Images (2001) (0)
James Elkins. Review of "The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft" by Anne Friedberg. (2008) (0)
Why it is Important That Novels Fail in Many Ways: Notes on Romina Paula, August (2017) (0)
The Ultimate Failed Modernist Hyper-Novel: Miklos Szentkuthy, Prae, part one (2017) (0)
Last words (2019) (0)
James Elkins. Review of "A General Theory of Visual Culture" by Whitney Davis. (2012) (0)
The Difference between Fragments and Parts: Notes on Will Eaves's "The Absent Therapist" (2017) (0)
Whitney Davis's General Theory of Visual Culture (2012) (0)
Anne Carson, "Nox" (2017) (0)
What is Psychological Complexity? Notes on Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (2017) (0)
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (2013) (0)
Yves Bonnefoy, The arriere-pays (2017) (0)
High Point of the American Experimental Novel: Notes on David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress (2017) (0)
Book Review:Picturing Science, Producing Art Caroline A. Jones, Peter Galison (2000) (0)
How to Solve Picture Puzzles (2004) (0)
Talking with Rebecca and Clara About Their Encounterwith Fictional Lawyers (2016) (0)
Hans Dam Christensen (2013) (0)
Images in Umberto Exo's "Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna" (2017) (0)
James Elkins. Review of "Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper" by Leo Steinberg. (2002) (0)
A Vertiginous Slide Into Literary Self-Regard: Notes on Enrique Vila-Matas, Because She Never Asked (2017) (0)
On Modern Impatience (1991) (0)
Arial—Arden Stern (2012) (0)
How to count in oil and stone (2019) (0)
James Elkins. Review of "Bachelors" by Rosiland Krauss. (1999) (0)
Beyond Portraiture: Recent Writing on Photography (2017) (0)
Visual Representation of Speech and Sounds (2007) (0)
Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism (2010) (0)
Why Should Novels About Science Be Coy About Including Science (or Mathematics)? On Michele Audin (2017) (0)
The mouldy materia prima (2019) (0)
The Domain of Images, chapter 1, in Portuguese (2011) (0)
Why Write Average Books? On Julian Barnes's "The Sense of an Ending" (2017) (0)
Lawyer Ethics: A Pedagogical Mosaic (2012) (0)
Words and Images Most Severely Distorted (2003) (0)
Into the Light (2005) (0)
The Anonymous Images in Raymond Roussel's "New Impressions of Africa" (2017) (0)
What Is a Fragment of / in Fiction? Thoughts on Pierre Senges's "Fragments of Lichtenberg" (2017) (0)
The Photographs in Wright Morris's "The Home Place" (2017) (0)
Deconstructing Danielewski's "Complexity" (2017) (0)
Remarks on a Little-Known Book of Images and Text: Helene Sommers's wonderful "I Was There" (2017) (0)
as jilted lovers can sometimes explain highly emotional, provocative re- sponses, but it is not necessary when the critique is running smoothly (at a (2016) (0)
How to Structure a 1,300 Page Book: Notes on William Vollmann's Imperial (2017) (0)
Why is Extremely Violent or Disgusting Subject Matter Still Inimical to Literature? Notes on Stokoe's Novel Cows (2017) (0)
The Stone art theory institutes (2015) (0)
From Bird-Goddesses to Jesus 2000: A Very, Very Brief History of Religion and Art (2002) (0)
The Idea of Second Rank Writers; And a Connection between Similes and Autism: Notes on Nicholson Baker (2017) (0)
The seminars: painting and images (2011) (0)
A Wandering Image of the Sirens (2007) (0)
The Dialogue on Chinese Traditional Painting with James Elkins (2011) (0)
[A Closer Look at Eastern European Modernism]: Response (2002) (0)
Sabine Kriebel: Using Photography as a Weapon (2007) (0)
When Novels are Too Comforting: Thoughts on Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto" (2017) (0)
Psychoanalysis and art history (1986) (0)
Some remarks on the lens, the shutter and the light sensitive surface (2007) (0)
A Misunderstanding of Fiction: Thoughts on William Gibson's "The Peripheral" (2017) (0)
The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images (2017) (0)
Some Words to Describe Spiritual Art (2004) (0)
What is the Genuinely Strange in Literature? Notes on Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman (2017) (0)
Images in Sebald's "Rings of Saturn" (2017) (0)
How do substances occupy the mind? (2019) (0)
Section 3 The Art Seminar (2013) (0)
What Counts as Good Writing for Knausgaard (2017) (0)
New Ways of Experimenting with Images in Literature: On Christian Bok's Xenotext (2017) (0)
What Does it Mean to Claim a Novel is a Single Sentence? Notes on Mathias Enard, Zone (2017) (0)
Photographs and Text in John Gardner's "Mickelsson's Ghosts" (2017) (0)
Methodologies and Theory, Old and New@@@The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction@@@Theory Rules: Art as Theory/Theory and Art@@@Modern Art in the Common Culture@@@The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing@@@Critical Terms for Art History@@@Gombrich on Art and Psychology (1997) (0)
Chika Okeke-Agulu (2013) (0)
The Examined Life: A Mind in Search of Heart (1985) (0)
The State of Art History in Ireland, Replies and Response (2006) (0)
Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate by Alberto Manguel (review) (2014) (0)
Frantic Cleverness as a Style: Notes on Nell Zink's "The Wallcreeper" (2017) (0)
What is a Rant in Literature: Notes on Gaddis's Agape Agape (2017) (0)
Lectures 5 : program 6 (2006) (0)
Photo credits and acknowledgments (2007) (0)
Compulsively Fractal Writing and Its Limits: Thoughts on Stephen Dixon, and Especially "Frog" (2017) (0)
Misunderstanding the Relation between Literary Modernism and Gender, Identity, and Other Contemporary Concerns: Some Notes on Zadie Smith (2017) (0)
Coagulating, cohobating, macerating, reverberating (2019) (0)
Getting the Hang of It (2005) (0)
A Poetics - of and for - Ruthann Robson (2005) (0)
The Images in Monica Ong's "Silent Anatomies" (2017) (0)
A Relation Between Theory and the Machinic Imagination: Notes on Christine Brooke-Rose's "Life, End of" (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
Images in Susan Howe's "The Midnight" (2017) (0)
On the Aesthetic Pleasure and Fictive Nature of Footnotes: Nabokov's 1,200 Pages of Commentary on Eugene Onegin (2017) (0)
Integrated foundation studio and art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2023) (0)
James Elkins. Review of "The Intelligence of Art" by Thomas E. Crow. (2000) (0)
Response to questionnaire: visual studies now (2021) (0)
The endgame, and the Qing eclipse1 (2020) (0)
Are Art Criticism, Art Theory, Art Instruction, and the Novel Global Phenomena? (2018) (0)
Representing a Ruined Mind in Fiction; and a Note on How Google Ruins Reading: On Markson's "Reader's Block" (2017) (0)
How Images Think (review) (2007) (0)
The Material of Writing Before Materiality Theory: On A.R. Ammons's Tape for the Turn of the Year (2017) (0)

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