The Domain of Images /

The Domain of Images / / James Elkins.

In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant 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, t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Elkins, James,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 5 tables, 105 halftones, 48 line drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Plates
  • PART I
  • 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
  • PART II
  • 7. Allographs
  • 8. Semasiographs
  • 9. Pseudowriting
  • 10. Subgraphemics
  • 11. Hypographemics
  • 12. Emblemata
  • 13. Schemata
  • 14. Conclusion: Ghosts and Natural Images
  • Glossary
  • Frequently Cited Sources
  • Picture Credits
  • Index

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