Autor: USA) Elkins James (School of the Art Institute of Chicago

With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Pu …

With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Pu …

Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it’s supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James …

Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it’s supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James …

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life, " but does that mean that contemporary art is …

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life, " but does that mean that contemporary art is …