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Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts

Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts PDF Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043906
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Elkins 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. Therefore, 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.