List of illustrations; List of tables; Introduction; Part I. Pain: 1. Membranes; 2. Psychomachia; 3. Cut flesh; Part II. Metamorphosis: 4. By looking alone; 5. Analogic seeing: 6. Dry schemata; Notes; Index.
James Elkins is Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of What Painting Is and Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity.
"Few art historians have attempted to talk about scientific images, and fewer still have attended classes on quantum mechanics as preparation. Elkins's book is a fresh, original attempt to reckon with many kinds of images from the late twentieth century, ranging from modern art to astrophysics and beyond. Elkins skillfully explores how all of these images point, in their own ways, to the limits of representation. This engaging and wide-ranging study is quite an accomplishment; we need more books like this one." - David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Specialists and general readers alike should welcome this stimulating attempt to foster a dialogue between disciplines. Informed and informative, it is comparative without being reductive, and it continues the author's exploration of the strange threshold between words and pictures. Elkins looks at and writes about the limits of visual representation and of language about images. His curiosity is infectious." - Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina
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