Six Stories from the End of Representation
Subtitle: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000 (Writing Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780804741477
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Theory of art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; General; Art / General
Description: James Elkins tells six independent stories about images made in the last quarter century. Some come from the world of art (painting and photography) and some from science (physics, astrophysics, and microscopy). What these images have in common is that they all fail as representations: they are blurry, dark, pixelated, or otherwise inadequete to what they represent. Yet this is precisely why they are of interest. Studies that bring together art and science are often predicated on the idea that science influences art or vice versa. Elkins challenges this view and remains true to the material of each discipline. --From cover.