Maja Naef is an art historian and art critic based in Basel, Switzerland.
53 Ebooks by JAMES ELKINS
James ELKINS: Visual Cultures
Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the visual and t …
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€23.99
JAMES ELKINS: What Painting Is
Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins’ compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to transform and be …
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€21.35
JAMES ELKINS: Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?
With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures …
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€22.63
JAMES ELKINS: On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life, " but does that mean that contemporary art is …
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€21.24
James Elkins & MICHAEL NEWMAN: State of Art Criticism
Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international …
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€23.63
James Elkins & David Morgan: Re-Enchantment
The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion …
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€21.13
James Elkins & Robert Williams: Renaissance Theory
Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and …
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€21.36
James Elkins: Visual Literacy
What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually …
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€23.63
James Elkins: How to Use Your Eyes
James Elkins’s How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at–and maybe to see for the first time–the world around us, with breathtaking results. Here are the common artifacts of life, often …
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€28.74
JAMES ELKINS: Pictures and Tears
Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it’s supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James …
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€21.20
James Elkins: Visual Studies
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. Then, with the skill and insight that have …
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€45.08
James Elkins: Visual Studies
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. Then, with the skill and insight that have …
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€44.91
James Elkins: Stories of Art
Stories of Art is James Elkins”s intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstra …
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€46.55
James Elkins: Stories of Art
Stories of Art is James Elkins”s intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstra …
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€46.51
James Elkins: Art History Versus Aesthetics
In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world’s most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein …
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€41.46
James Elkins: Art History Versus Aesthetics
In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world’s most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein …
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€41.82
James Elkins: What Photography Is
In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting …
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€50.25
James Elkins: What Photography Is
In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting …
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€49.74
James Elkins & Michael Newman: State of Art Criticism
Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international …
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English
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€46.46
James Elkins & Michael Newman: State of Art Criticism
Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international …
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English
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€46.46
James Elkins: Is Art History Global?
This is the third volume in
The Art Seminar, James Elkin”s series of conversations on art and visual studies.
Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art …
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€53.53
James Elkins: Is Art History Global?
This is the third volume in
The Art Seminar, James Elkin”s series of conversations on art and visual studies.
Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art …
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DRM
€54.02
James Elkins: Photography Theory
Photography Theory presents forty of the world”s most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers, …
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€46.47
James Elkins: Photography Theory
Photography Theory presents forty of the world”s most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers, …
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€46.48
James Elkins: Master Narratives and their Discontents
In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are …
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€45.28
James Elkins: Master Narratives and their Discontents
In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are …
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€45.22
James Elkins: On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art ‘a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life, ‘ but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? …
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€46.52
James Elkins: On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art ‘a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life, ‘ but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? …
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€46.03
Rachel (Princeton University Princeton University) DeLue & James Elkins: Landscape Theory
Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship betw …
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€45.27
Rachel (Princeton University Princeton University) DeLue & James Elkins: Landscape Theory
Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship betw …
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€44.91
James Elkins & David Morgan: Re-Enchantment
The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion …
EPUB
English
DRM
€46.02
James Elkins & David Morgan: Re-Enchantment
The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion …
PDF
English
DRM
€46.34
James Elkins & Robert Williams: Renaissance Theory
Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and the …
EPUB
DRM
€46.47
James Elkins & Robert Williams: Renaissance Theory
Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and the …
PDF
DRM
€46.55
James Elkins: Visual Literacy
What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become ‘visually literate, ‘ w …
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€49.89
James Elkins: Visual Literacy
What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become ‘visually literate, ‘ w …
PDF
DRM
€50.25
James Elkins: Pictures and Tears
Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it”s supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by …
EPUB
DRM
€46.47
James Elkins: Pictures and Tears
Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it”s supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by …
PDF
DRM
€46.15
James Elkins: How to Use Your Eyes
James Elkins’s How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at–and maybe to see for the first time–the world around us, with breathtaking results. Here are the common artifacts of life, often …
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English
DRM
€48.64
James Elkins: How to Use Your Eyes
James Elkins’s How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at–and maybe to see for the first time–the world around us, with breathtaking results. Here are the common artifacts of life, often …
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English
DRM
€48.62
James Elkins: Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?
With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century.
Why Are Our Pictures …
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€46.50
James Elkins: Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?
With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century.
Why Are Our Pictures …
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DRM
€45.77
Maureen Burns & Alicia Chester: Theorizing Visual Studies
This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media …
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€58.45
Maureen Burns & Alicia Chester: Theorizing Visual Studies
This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media …
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English
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€58.53
Maria Pia Di Bella & James Elkins: Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwined with such themes, from the central images of the P …
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€53.96
Maria Pia Di Bella & James Elkins: Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwined with such themes, from the central images of the P …
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€53.96
Elkins James Elkins: Why Art Cannot Be Taught
In this smart survival guide for students and teachers–the only book of its kind–James Elkins examines the "curious endeavor to teach the unteachable" that is generally known as …
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€18.77
James Elkins: What Painting Is
In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a strange language to explore what it is a painter really …
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€41.42
James Elkins: What Painting Is
In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a strange language to explore what it is a painter really …
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English
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€41.86
Oliver Grau: Imagery in the 21st Century
Scholars from science, art, and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis.We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, …
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€199.09
James Elkins: The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing
The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing is the most globally informed book on world art history, drawing on research in 76 countries. In addition some chapters have been crowd sourced: posted …
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€33.95
Vilém Flusser & Hans Jonas: Pensar la imagen II
Pensar lo visual antropológicamente conlleva comprender las formas
en que distintos pueblos alrededor del mundo se han enfrentado a lo
que hacen las imágenes –no siempre diferenciada de la …
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€20.99
James Elkins: Weak in Comparison to Dreams
For years, Samuel Emmer has monitored bacteria levels in drinking water for the small city of Guelph.
He is content to focus on dangerous life-threatening single-celled organisms as his grasp on hi …
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€20.99
