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Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000 (Writing Science)
Six Stories from the End of Representation Images in Painting Photography Astronomy Microscopy Particle Physics and Quantum Mechanics 19802000 - Writing Science
Author: James Elkins
James Elkins has shaped the discussion about how we?as artists, as art historians, or as outsiders?view art. He has not only revolutionized our thinking about the purpose of teaching art, but has also blazed trails in creating a means of communication between scientists, artists, and humanities scholars. — In Six Stories from the End of Repre...  more », Elkins weaves stories about recent images from painting, photography, physics, astrophysics, and microscopy. These images, regardless of origin, all fail as representations: they are blurry, dark, pixellated, or otherwise unclear.

In these opaque images, Elkins finds an opportunity to create stories that speak simultaneously to artists and to scientists, and to open both those fields to those of us who have little purchase in either. Regarding each image through the lens of the discipline that produced it, Elkins simultaneously affirms the unique structure of each way of viewing the world and brings those views together into a vibrant conversation.
ISBN-13: 9780804741477
ISBN-10: 0804741476
Publication Date: 2/8/2008
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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