James Elkins is an art historian and art critic

Art critic

An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...

. He is E.C. Chadbourne Chair of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also coordinates the Stone Summer Theory Institute, a short term school on contemporary art history based at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Education

• BA, cum laude, 1977, Cornell University
  Cornell University
  Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
  
  
• MFA and MA, 1983, and PhD with honors, 1989, University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
  

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

• Stories of Art

• On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

• On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them

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

• Master Narratives and Their Discontents

External links

• http://www.jameselkins.com