Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing

by James Elkins

Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection - and therefore deserving of serious consideration for its own sake, as the testament of art history and of individual historians. Elkins asks such questions as: How do various art historical approaches represent works of art? What can they see, and what must they miss? And what insight does such writing offer us about ourselves?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415926637
• ISBN13: 9780415926638
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"