James Elkins

3.0k citations
95 papers · 1.2k indexed · h-index 17
Topics
Visual Culture and Art Theory (20 papers)Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (15 papers)Art, Politics, and Modernism (14 papers)
Journals
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaFertility and SterilityCurrent Anthropology

In The Last Decade

James Elkins

76 papers receiving 813 citations

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James Elkins
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  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 412
  • Sociology and Political Science 201
  • History 176
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 164
  • Anthropology 112
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Fields of papers citing papers by James Elkins

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Elkins

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Elkins. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Elkins based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James Elkins. James Elkins is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Art Critiques: A Guide
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Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism
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Photography Theory (Art Seminar)
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Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
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What are we seeing, exactly?
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Between Picture and Proposition: Torturing Paintings in Wittgenstein's "Tractatus.".
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The State of Art Criticism
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About James Elkins

James Elkins is a scholar working on Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Museology and History, having authored 95 papers that have together received 1.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Visual Culture and Art Theory (20 papers), Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (15 papers) and Art, Politics, and Modernism (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (412 citations), Museology (105 citations) and Archeology (19 citations). James Elkins has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Hong Kong. Frequent co-authors include Barbara Maria Stafford, Martin Kemp, Noël Carroll, David Summers, Michael Newman, Robert C. Williams, Alice Kim, Robert T. Jensen, James E. Cutting and Bruno Latour. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Fertility and Sterility and Current Anthropology.

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