Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing by James Elkins

Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing

James Elkins

328 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction historical philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection - and therefore deserving of serious consideration for its own sake, as the testament of art history and of individual...

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