Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing - James Elkins - Books - Pennsylvania State University Press - 9780271016306 - September 30, 1997
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James Elkins
Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing

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How do psychoanalytic, semiotic, deconstructive, and other interpretations represent works of art? The author suggests in this book that the philosophic problems posed by this question and others are insuperable. He argues that art history as writing must be taken seriously for its own sake.

312 pages, 39 illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 30, 1997
ISBN13 9780271016306
Publishers Pennsylvania State University Press
Pages 312
Dimensions 263 × 189 × 24 mm   ·   1.06 kg

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