Traces the development (or invention) of the modern art school and considers how issues such as the question of core curriculum and the intellectual isolation of art schools affect the teaching and learning of art. This book also addresses the phenomenon of art critiques as a microcosm for teaching art as a whole and dissects real-life critiques.

Featuring contributions from the world's prominent and widely-travelled art history scholars, this third volume in The Art Seminar deals with art and visual studies.

At the root of this tremendously original work is Elkins' desire to bring the study of art back to the studio to understand the artist's relationship to his or her medium.

Raising interesting issues, and answering questions, this collection presents over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers who discuss the question: does philosophy have anything to say to art history? It analyzes the commentary by twenty scholars on an animated conversation among ten scholars and aestheticians.

Weaves stories about various images from painting, photography, physics, astrophysics, and microscopy. These images, regardless of origin, all fail as representations: they are blurry, dark, pixellated, or otherwise unclear.

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. This book presents a conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject.

The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history.

For some people, a photograph is an optically accurate impression of the world, for others, it is mainly a way of remembering people and places. Part of the The Art Seminar series, this volume aims to offer many answers to the question - What makes a photograph a photograph?

Elkins's intimate history of art demonstrates persuasively that there can never be one story of art. The story of art is the story of different cultures, and our own different experiences of art - perspectives that art history usually ignores.

James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources.

Brings together the work of major visual studies critics including W J T Mitchell, Barbara Stafford, Jonathan Crary, and James Elkins to explore what impact various concepts of 'visual literacy' will have on the traditional field of art history.

Discusses the rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debates the principal texts and authors who have sought to reconceptualize the period. This work also discusses the issue of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance.

For some people, a photograph is an optically accurate impression of the world, for others, it is mainly a way of remembering people and places. Part of the The Art Seminar series, this volume aims to offer many answers to the question - What makes a photograph a photograph?

Discusses the rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debates the principal texts and authors who have sought to reconceptualize the period. This work also discusses the issue of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance.

This book is about the curious disconnection between spirituality and current art.

Artistic representations of landscape are studied in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish fresh of thinking about landscape in art.

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. This book presents a conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject.

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? Answering this question and more, On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art explores the curious disconnection between spirituality and current art.

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from many disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art.