Art

Includes essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history. Examines topics such as the methodological stakes in the writing of American art history, changing ideas about what constitutes "Americanness," and the relationship of art to public culture.

Explores the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day. Includes essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history. Articulates the direction in which the field of Chinese art history is moving, as well as providing a roadmap for historians interested in comparative study or theory.

Uses both Western and non-Western artworks, tables of contents from art histories written in cultures outside the center of Western European tradition. Includes diagrams of how artworks might connect through a single individual.

In Pictures and Tears, art historian James Elkins tells the story of paintings that have made people cry. Drawing upon anecdotes related to individual works of art, he provides a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past, and a meditation on the curious tearlessness with which most people approach art in the present.

A collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts.