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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800091403321

Autore

Elkins James <1955-, >

Titolo

Stories of art / / James Elkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-135-20658-9

0-415-93943-7

0-203-70022-8

1-135-20659-7

Edizione

[Tenth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

707/.22

Soggetti

Art - Historiography - Methodology

Art criticism - Historiography - Methodology

Art - Historiography - Forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-169)  and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intuitive stories -- Old stories -- New stories -- Non-European stories -- Perfect stories.

Sommario/riassunto

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them all is one way to hear the multiple stories that art tells. But each of us also has our own story of art, a kind of private art history made up of the pieces we have seen, and loved or hated, the effects they had on us, and the connections