Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting.

In this intimate history, James Elkins demonstrates that there is - and can never be - only one story of art. He opens up the questions that traditional art history usually avoids.

In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources.

In the first book to bring together recent thinking on perspective from such fields as art history, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and the history of mathematics, James Elkins leads us to a new understanding of how we talk about ...

Extensively illustrated with a surprising range of images, the book demonstrates that what makes photography uniquely powerful is its ability to express the difficulty--physical, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic--of the act of seeing ...

Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience.

In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history.

A study on how our eyes function with our brains examines the irrational elements of physical sight and concludes that human seeing transforms both the viewer and the object being viewed.

This book will enable you to walk into a museum and talk about the spirituality that is or is not visible in the art you see.