James Elkins

Author of The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing	160	2	18	3.58	3.50	0.79
How to Use Your Eyes	121		15	3.53	4.00	1.15
What Painting Is	106		13	4.27	4.50	0.80
Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A HANDBOOK FOR ART STUDENTS	76	2	12	3.75	4.00	0.92
Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings	63	1	8	3.44	3.00	1.04
Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction	50	2	5	3.70	3.50	0.68
Stories of Art	38		4	2.88	2.75	1.52
The Domain of Images (Cornell Paperbacks)	36		3	2.33	2.00	0.47
What Happened to Art Criticism? (Prickly Paradigm)	39		3	3.67	4.00	0.47
Master Narratives and Their Discontents (Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts)	14		2	3.00	3.00	1.00
Is Art History Global? (The Art Seminar)	12		2	4.00	4.00	1.00
Re-Enchantment (The Art Seminar)	9	1	2	1.75	1.75	0.25
On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art	33		2	3.75	3.75	0.25
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity	30		2	2.00	2.00	1.00
Photography Theory (Art Seminar)	24	1	1	1.00	1.00
On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them	7		1	3.00	3.00
Margeret Corcoran Paintings	1		1	4.00	4.00
Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis	14		1	2.00	2.00
Art History Versus Aesthetics (The Art Seminar)	19		1	3.00	3.00
Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art	4	1	1	5.00	5.00
Art and Globalization (The Stone Art Theory Institutes)	3
Obra Incompleta Vik Muniz Incomplete Works	1
What Photography Is	4
Art critiques : a guide	2
PRINTED PROJECT	1
Visual cultures	2
Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History	2
Visual Literacy	20
Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing	18
The Poetics of Perspective	25
Marco Breuer: Tremors, Ephemera	2
Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000 (Writing Science)	11
The State of Art Criticism (The Art Seminar)	8
Renaissance Theory (The Art Seminar)	18