James Elkins is an art historian and art critic. He is also professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1989).

Education

• BA, cum laude, 1977, Cornell University
• MFA and MA, 1983, and PhD with honors, 1989, University of Chicago

Publications

• Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
• Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
• Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis
• The Domain of Images
• How to Use Your Eyes
• What Painting Is
• The Poetics of Perspective
• The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing
• Why are our Pictures Puzzles?
• What Happened to Art Criticism?
• Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction
• Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook For Art Students
• Six Stories From the End of Representation

External links

• http://www.jameselkins.com

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