The Domain of Images Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:3860454 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3860454 N2 - In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. Thisoriginal and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond theirtraditional subjects--painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking--to thevast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology,commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts,can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores ofillustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking aboutvisual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense oforganization. Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of currentcriteria used by art historians for selecting images for study. He urgesscholars to adopt, instead, the far broader criteria of the young field ofimage studies. After analyzing the philosophic underpinnings of thisinterdisciplinary field, he surveys the entire range of images, fromcalligraphy to mathematical graphs and abstract painting. Throughout, Elkinsblends philosophic analysis with historical detail to produce a startling newsense of such basic terms as pictures, writing, and notation. CY - Ithaca & London SN - 0801435595 AD - Ithaca & London EP - 282 TI - The Domain of Images PB - Cornell University Press KW - art KW - arthistory KW - books KW - depiction KW - diks KW - iconology KW - images KW - pictures KW - representation KW - visual AU - Elkins, James PY - 1999/// UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0801435595 ER -