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050 00 $aN7480$b.E44 1998
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100 1 $aElkins, James,$d1955-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94035445
245 10 $aOur beautiful, dry, and distant texts :$bart history as writing /$cJames Elkins.
260 $aUniversity Park, Pa. :$bPennsylvania State University Press,$c1998.
263 $a9701
300 $a300 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tDialogue with a Saturnian --$g2.$tThe Sameness of Theory --$g3.$tOn the Impossibility of Close Reading --$g4.$tSaying Who We Are --$g5.$tSaying What We Are Doing --$g6.$tUnease and Disease --$g7.$tThe History and Theory of Meandering --$g8.$tThe Brancacci Chapel and Spider Webs --$g9.$tThe Avaricious Snap of Rhetoric --$g10.$tWriting as Reverie --$g11.$tOn Half-Consciousness.
520 $aHow do psychoanalytic, semiotic, deconstructive, and other interpretations represent works of art? What can they see, and what must they miss? In Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts, Elkins suggests that the philosophic problems posed by these questions are essentially insuperable because philosophy makes demands of visual artifacts that they can answer only by becoming mirror images of philosophic discourse.
520 8 $aElkins argues that writing is what art historians produce, and, whether such writing is a transparent vehicle for the transmission of facts or an embattled forum for the rehearsal of institutional relations and constructions of history, it is an expressive medium, with the capacity for emotion and reflection.
520 8 $aTherefore, it needs to be taken seriously for its own sake: it is the testament of art history and of individual historians, and it is only weakened and slighted by versions of history that imagine it either as uncontrolled dissemination or as objective discovery and reporting.
650 0 $aArt$xHistoriography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007487
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