The Art Seminar is a book series from Routledge and the University of College Cork that addresses some of the most challenging subjects in current writing on art. Each volume is based on a roundtable conversation between leading scholars and attempts to extend the boundaries of theorizing on each subject. Series Editor: James Elkins, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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By James Elkins
December 13, 2006
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 historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. ...
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By James Elkins
December 13, 2006
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, Margaret Iversen and Abigail Solomon-Godeau in animated debate on the nature of photography. ...
By Puran Singh
June 21, 2013
First Published in 2000. This is Volume IX of fourteen of a series on India- its language and literature. Written in 1926, The Spirit of Oriental Poetry includes the author’s account of his journeys in search of ‘His Footprints’....
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By James Elkins
October 27, 2005
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 ponder the disconnect between these two disciplines. The volume has a radically innovative structure: it ...
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By James Elkins, David Morgan
October 06, 2008
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 itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, ...
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By Rachel DeLue, James Elkins
December 17, 2007
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 between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple&...
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By James Elkins, Robert Williams
April 25, 2008
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 theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance ...
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By James Elkins, Michael Newman
December 17, 2007
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 conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art ...