James Elkins
News:
Passed the 300,000 word mark on my work in progress. Writing every day! Please use the contact form to schedule lectures, studio visits, or seminars. I've started using Academia.edu as a message board. If you download something of mine that's posted there, send me a note: I'm always glad to answer questions. (There are also more texts posted on Academia.) See "Lectures" page for the travel schedule. (Updated June 24, 2017.)
Latest uploads:
New reviews and essays are on Goodreads and on Writing with Images. Latest texts on this site: the book Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?; the book How to Use Your Eyes; and an essay on the complicity between torture and formal analysis. (There is also a website with reviews of contemporary piano music.)
Live Writing Projects:
I am experimenting with writing live on the internet. These texts update live, and you can contribute to them & be thanked when the book is published. (1) What is Interesting Writing in Art History?, (2) Writing with Images. Other live writing projects are finished: Visual Worlds, and The Impending Single History of Art. Thanks everyone for contributing!
On The Unrepresentable in Pictures
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An essay on the limits of visual representation, with attention to recent positions taken by Rosalind Krauss and Georges Didi-Huberman.
How to Invite a Speaker
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Instructions and tips on inviting people to speak at your university..
Two Ways of Looking at Ceramics
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An essay about the reasons ceramics is marginal in art history, and how it can be central in some philosophy.
The Stone Art Theory Institutes
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A series of five books on art theory, produced at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
Artists with PhDs
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A book about the PhD degree in studio art, as it is practiced around the world.
Pictures and the Words That Fail Them
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A book about the concept of the image, with chapters on non-Western concepts, figure and ground, trace, mark, and other fundamental ideas.
