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.

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.  

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

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? Or in the developed West and in Asia or in developing nations? This collection brings together the work of major visual studies critics to explore what impact the new concept of 'visual literacy' can have on the traditional field of art history.

James Elkins tells the story of paintings that have made people cry. Drawing upon anecdotes related to individual works of art, he provides a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art

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?

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

A study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations around the world, and includes essays on the value accorded to the visual and the verbal in Japan, Poland, China, Russia, Ireland, and Slovenia. It also raises and explores issues of national identity, and provides information for future research.

Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art-historian, James Elkins' highly original work communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history by focusing on alchemy.