Table of Contents

Series Preface Introduction, by Anna Sigrídur Arnar The Master Narratives and Their Discontents 1: Modernisms 2: Postmodernisms 3: Politics 4: The Importance of Skill 5: The Idea That None of This Matters Anymore 6: Conclusions Seminar Bibliography Index

About the Author

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Pictures and Tears,How to Use Your Eyes, and WhatPainting Is and, most recently, of Visual Studies: ASkeptical Introduction and The Strange Place of Religionin Contemporary Art, all published by Routledge.