James Elkins (art historian)

Education

• BA, cum laude, 1977, Cornell University
• MFA and MA, 1983, and PhD with honors, 1989, University of Chicago

  Publications

• Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
• Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
• Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis
• The Domain of Images
• How to Use Your Eyes
• What Painting Is
• The Poetics of Perspective
• The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing
• Why are our Pictures Puzzles?
• What Happened to Art Criticism?
• Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction
• Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook For Art Students
• Six Stories From the End of Representation
• Stories of Art
• On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
• On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them
• Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing
• Master Narratives and Their Discontents