Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways ...

The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental is...

Constitutions are supposed to provide an enduring structure for politics. Yet only half live more...

In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in th...

In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the st...

This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and vis...

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "e;a relig...

The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the ...

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the scie...

With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to...

Art Does art leave you cold?And is that what it's supposed to do?Or is a painting meant to mo...

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging boo...