[PDF.33al] Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

[PDF.as76] Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Great thesis but flawed delivery|By GiovanniGF|The topic is fascinating, and when Elkins talks about specific works of art he is great. Unfortunately, when he talks about emotions he doesn't say much and he repeats his few points insufferably; a good editor would have trimmed this book by a quarter. That said, Elkins' thesis that we've forgotten how to engage with paintings emo|From Library Journal|A much different exploration of the meaning of painting is found in Elkins's Pictures and Tears. Elkins (Sch. of the Art Inst. of Chicago; What Painting Is) asks why some people cry in front of paintings. Using both historical sources and

Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that? 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 emotio...

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