The Domain of Images:

In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects—painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking—to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, t...

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Main Author: Elkins, James 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2018]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723902
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723902
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723902
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723902
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723902
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723902
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723902
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723902
Summary:In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects—painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking—to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores of illustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking about visual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense of organization.Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of current criteria used by art historians for selecting images for study. He urges scholars to adopt, instead, the far broader criteria of the young field of image studies. After analyzing the philosophic underpinnings of this interdisciplinary field, he surveys the entire range of images, from calligraphy to mathematical graphs and abstract painting. Throughout, Elkins blends philosophic analysis with historical detail to produce a startling new sense of such basic terms as pictures, writing, and notation
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource 5 tables, 105 halftones, 48 line drawings
ISBN:9781501723902
DOI:10.7591/9781501723902