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The domain of images / James Elkins.
Main entry:

Elkins, James, 1955-

Title & Author:

The domain of images / James Elkins.

Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1999.

Description:

xxi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 263) and index.
1. Art History and Images That Are Not Art -- 2. Art History as the History of Crystallography -- 3. Interpreting Nonart Images -- 4. What Is a Picture? -- 5. Pictures as Ruined Notations -- 6. Problems of Classification -- 7. Allographs -- 8. Semasiographs -- 9. Pseudowriting -- 10. Subgraphemics -- 11. Hypographemics -- 12. Emblemata -- 13. Schemata -- 14. Conclusion: Ghosts and Natural Images.
Dust jacket.
Summary:

In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects - painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking - to the vast 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 of illustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking about visual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense of organization.

ISBN:

0801435595 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801435591 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801487248 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0801487242 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Visual communication.
Communication visuelle.
Berufsbild
Kunstgeschichte
Kunstwissenschaft
Methode
Visuelle Kommunikation
Ästhetik
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Beeldcommunicatie.
Interpretatie.

Form/genre:

Art criticism
Critiques d'art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203692
Call No.: P93.5 .E53 1999
Status: Available

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