Stories of Art

By James Elkins

Book Overview

This original history of art opens up the questions that traditional art history usually avoids. Written by an acclaimed author, the book includes Western and non-Western artworks and diagrams of how artworks might connect through a single individual

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415939437
• ISBN13: 9780415939430
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Read

I would highly recommend this book to students and instructors of art history. Elkins succeeds in encouraging readers to have active thoughts about how the practice of art history is being shaped by art-survey texts. In > he confronts the disappointments and limitations that these widely used publications bring about by furthering contemplation on their purpose, their beginnings, and their future.