James Elkins

Three anthologies are planned, in Russian, Spanish, and German. Links will be added here as the books appear.

Is "art history" the name of a discipline, or an area of interest, that is practiced throughout the world? Or is it a Western interest, currently spreading along with capitalism?

A book about the hypnotic attraction of oil and tempera: why painters love paint, even before the painting is half-finished.

A book on the principal theories of modernism and postmodernism, considered in terms of how they divide up the past two centuries.

A book about the kinds of images that are made and studied throughout the university, not just in the arts and humanities.

An unpublished book of commentary on a beautiful and mysterious manuscript.

Two essays on the state of art history in Ireland, with reference to the general question of how art history is taught in smaller countries.

An essay on the current state of the theory of the gaze, and a critical assessment of its recent development.