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The Art Seminar

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Re-Enchantment

Edited by James Elkins, David Morgan

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…

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October 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96052-6 (Routledge)

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Renaissance Theory

Edited by James Elkins, Robert Williams

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…

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June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96046-5 (Routledge)

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Landscape Theory

Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins

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…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96054-0 (Routledge)

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The State of Art Criticism

Edited by James Elkins, MICHAEL NEWMAN

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

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97787-6 (Routledge)

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Photography Theory

Edited by James Elkins

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…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97783-8 (Routledge)

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Is Art History Global?

Edited by James Elkins

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…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97785-2 (Routledge)

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Art History Versus Aesthetics

Edited by James Elkins

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…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97689-3 (Routledge)

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