About the Author

James Elkins teaches in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His books include The Object Stares Back, On the Nature of Seeing, What Painting Is; and, also from Cornell, The Poetics of Perspective.

Reviews

"James Elkins will deliver more pleasurable reflections per square image than you ever dreamed possible from an art historian."-Toronto Globe and Mail "For whatever reason, some of the most daring, experimental writing in the field of art history is now coming out of Chicago... Purely in terms of output, Elkins is phenomenal...His work is about 'art history on the edge,' about aspects of art and design that defy categorization and that easily fall through the cracks... "-Ballast Quarterly Review. Spring, 2000.