#book is pictures and tears by james elkins

[vitruvianmanbara]

i’m serious i need to go to the museum and stand 18 inches from a rothko…..

#book is pictures and tears by james elkins #which i’m trying to pick up again! ​i actually want to reread this chapter - it’s about the rothko chapel

[sourkitsch]

from Pictures & Tears : A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins

#pictures & tears #James Elkins #I’m really enjoying this book I think it straddles the academic & non academic experiences in a very interesting way

[christinedepizza]

#Pictures & Tears: A History of People who have Cried in Front of Paintings #James Elkins #Art History #books #words

[thinkpink212]

Feed the mind to nourish the soul

Nonfiction Book recommendations

🌷 Fearing The Black body: thé racial origin of fatphobia By Sabrina Strings

🌷 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do By Amy Morin

🌷 Homo Deus: A brief history of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari

🌷 Breaking The Habit Of Being Yourself By Dr. Joe Dispenza

🌷The Anatomy of Loneliness By Teal Swan

🌷 Thé Secret By Rhonda Byrne

🌷 Atomic Habits By James Clear

🌷 Why We Eat (Too Much) By Andrew Jenkinson

🌷 Pictures and Tears: A history of people who have cried in front of paintings By James Elkins

#book recomendation #thinkpink recomends #thinkpinkarchives #thinkpink thoughts #advice #books #book lover #reading #read #lifestyle #soft life #learning #self improvement #educational #black girl healing

[metaphrasis]

Any books and essays you’d recommend?

Fiction:

(Ideal for the darker, colder months)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Steppenwolf and Demian, Hermann Hesse

Just Kids, Patti Smith

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Death & the Dervish, Meša Selimović

Macbeth, Shakespeare

Essays:

On language:

Nobel Lecture (1993), Toni Morrison 

How Words Fail, Cathy Park Hong

Politics and the English Language, George Orwell

Of Strangeness That Wakes Us, Ilya Kaminsky

The Meanings of a Word, Gloria Naylor

Mother Tongue, Yoojin Grace Wuertz

Borrowing a Simile, Walt Whitman

Word Order, Lewis H. Lapham

Four Essays, Mikhail Bakhtin

Nature: Chapter IV Language, Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Strange Persistence of First Languages, Julie Sedivy

What Do You Lose When You Lose Your Language? Joshua Fishman

Here is a list of essays on translation I have recommended on a former blog

Other:

A Defence of Poetry, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Art Objects, Jeanette Winterson

Preface to the History of The Renaissance, Walter Pater

The Laugh of the Medusa, Helene Cixous

Ways of Seeing, John Berger

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin

Portraits: John Berger on Artists, John Berger

Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, James Elkins

Resources for essays: Lapham’s Quarterly, The Paris Review, Poetry Foundation

#personal

[zombiesun]

39 :D

39. Five books you absolutely want to read next year?

ignatz / monica youn

pictures & tears: a history of people who have cried in front of paintings / james elkins

the poppy war / r.f. kuang

last ones left alive / sarah davis-goff

memories of emanon / shinji kajio

#mailbox #ask game #bookshelf #thank you! actually helped me start my 2023 read list

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Your non fiction book posts are always so sexy!! Do you have any recommendations for some preferably by South Asian writers?

Omg thank you! Honestly I rarely ever read nonfiction much less by south asian writers but here's some I've read or have in my tbr + other nonfiction I've loved:

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction, Arundhati Roy

Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee

Incarnations: India in 50 Lives, Sunil Khilnani

In an Antique Land, Amitav Ghosh

City of Djinns: A Year In Delhi*, William Dalrymple

The Fall of Language in the Age of English, Minae Mizumura tr. Julia Winters Carpenter & Mari Yoshihara

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe

Still Life with Oysters and Lemons: On Objects and Intimacy*, Mark Doty

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

A Field Guide to Getting Lost*, Rebecca Solnit

Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art, Kiki Karoglou

Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces, Wislawa Szymborska tr. Clare Cavanagh

In Praise of Shadows, Junichir Tanizaki tr. Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker

The Lonely City, Olivia Laing

#compiling this made me realise how little non fic i read 😭 #these are books I've read last year + in 2020 #also the very first link at the start is my drive folder where you'll find these + like 20 others i havent read #ref #ref: mine #book recs #mine

[zahut]

“In the past, paintings [faded] into memory, and people had to cherish their memories or risk forgetting the pictures altogether. Before the invention of airplanes and cars, paintings were substantially harder to see, and before the rise of modern public museums, the majority of paintings were effectively off-limits to most people. We tend not to notice such slow changes in our cultural habits, but they have a far-reaching effect on the ability pictures have to move us. In prerevolutionary China, before there were museums in the Western sense, paintings were largely in the hands of the court or of aristocrats. Aspiring painters sometimes made long and arduous voyages with the hope of persuading owners to show their jealously guarded masterpieces. Some paintings became the objects of almost religious veneration. They were copied, of course, but no one could entirely trust a copy. A painter might only see a rare painting once, for a few minutes, and then it would have to be held in memory for years, and perhaps for an entire lifetime. Painters who wanted to learn the style of some ancient master would be lucky to see two or three of the master’s paintings in a lifetime of traveling.

Today everything has changed. We can fly quickly from city to city comparing pictures, or wait for large traveling exhibitions to bring together all of Pollock, or Cézanne, or Picasso. These days reproductions are good enough to serve as passable stand-ins for the originals. If you’re on vacation and you see a picture you like, you no longer have to store it up in memory against the near-certainty that you’ll never see it again. At the very least, you can buy a book or a postcard to remind you of the original and keep your memory fresh.

Most of us are happy with the new arrangements: within limits, we can see what we want when we want. Yet I wonder if the Chinese customs might not be better than ours. If I had known I would only see [that] painting once, I would have looked hard, and tried to memorize it. I might even have made a sketch of it, and labeled all the colors. Later I could have tried to nourish my memory by reading over my notes and trying to call it to mind […].”

— James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

#james elkins #quotes #text #words #writing #language #art

[ironpour]

what are your favorite non fiction books?

good question. ive recently read and really enjoyed Underland by Robert Macfarlane and Hungry by Jeff Gordinier 

ive posted short reviews of both on goodreads recently - https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/91836846-oliver-fletcher

The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris was fun

one of my faves of all time is The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

and also Pictures and Tears by James Elkins

[mesogeios]

“In the past, paintings [faded] into memory, and people had to cherish their memories or risk forgetting the pictures altogether. Before the invention of airplanes and cars, paintings were substantially harder to see, and before the rise of modern public museums, the majority of paintings were effectively off-limits to most people. We tend not to notice such slow changes in our cultural habits, but they have a far-reaching effect on the ability pictures have to move us. In prerevolutionary China, before there were museums in the Western sense, paintings were largely in the hands of the court or of aristocrats. Aspiring painters sometimes made long and arduous voyages with the hope of persuading owners to show their jealously guarded masterpieces. Some paintings became the objects of almost religious veneration. They were copied, of course, but no one could entirely trust a copy. A painter might only see a rare painting once, for a few minutes, and then it would have to be held in memory for years, and perhaps for an entire lifetime. Painters who wanted to learn the style of some ancient master would be lucky to see two or three of the master’s paintings in a lifetime of traveling.

Today everything has changed. We can fly quickly from city to city comparing pictures, or wait for large traveling exhibitions to bring together all of Pollock, or Cézanne, or Picasso. These days reproductions are good enough to serve as passable stand-ins for the originals. If you’re on vacation and you see a picture you like, you no longer have to store it up in memory against the near-certainty that you’ll never see it again. At the very least, you can buy a book or a postcard to remind you of the original and keep your memory fresh.

Most of us are happy with the new arrangements: within limits, we can see what we want when we want. Yet I wonder if the Chinese customs might not be better than ours. If I had known I would only see [that] painting once, I would have looked hard, and tried to memorize it. I might even have made a sketch of it, and labeled all the colors. Later I could have tried to nourish my memory by reading over my notes and trying to call it to mind [...].”

— James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

#James Elkins #quote #currently reading #art criticism #museum studies

[devouringyourson]

Art anon here :) unfortunatly I don't know any web series but you'd probably enjoy James Elkins' books. 'Pictures of the body: pain and metamorphosis' and 'Pictures and tears: a history of people who have cried in front of paintings' are both beautiful reads.

Hello beloved. Those titles have already grabbed me wow. Thank you! I've forgotten how to get texts for free after uni but I'll have a good look for a e-download of these

#pain and metamorphosis 👀 #a history of people who have cried in front of paintings?? #sign me up

[self-aware-elephant]

“The attendants told me that the visitors who are most moved are the ones who stay for more than a few minutes, but do not sit and meditate. They look intensely, and for a long time... A few viewers report a turning point, the moment when they have seen everything they can, and they sense it’s time to look away. ‘So absolutely antagonistic and chilling,’ one visitor writes. If those people then stay on, if they stick it out and keep looking, they begin to feel much stronger emotions. They are the ones most likely to cry. Their entries in the visitor’s books are usually short—a line or two. A few are very brief, and I wondered if the visitors were still crying as they wrote.”

James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, 2004. Ch 1. “Crying at Nothing But Colors”

Comments from the Rothko Chapel confession books overlaid upon one of fourteen purplish-black Rothko canvases inside the Rothko Chapel.

#art #mark rothko #quotes #rothko

[029110k]

Do you have any art book recommendations ?

Some of my faves are John Berger Ways of seeing, Portraits, Landscapes, James Elkins Pictures and tears, Joseph Beuys What is art, Ad Reinhardt Art as art, Mark Rothko The artists reality, Simon Morley The sublime, Joan Kee Models of Integrity. There are a lot of books on specific artists that I like but that depends on which artist interests you

[thoroughlyfagged]

10 books i want to read in 2019

tagged by @hcsperrhodos

caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation - silvia federici

alias grace - atwood

something wicked this way comes - bradbury

pictures & tears: a history of people who have cried in front of paintings - james elkins

literature and evil - george bataille

and many more that i’ve left half-read these last years and i’m too embarrassed to mention, i tag @coeurcordium

#επίσης θέλω να διαβάσω έλληνες συγγραφεις #send help #and recs #δεν ξέρω

[mesogeios]

Hi Lana, what are your top five books you read in 2019?

Hello! I really can’t narrow the list much more: I’ve tried and it just doesn't seem genuine. Below, you’ll find a list of books that I’ve read this last year and that have particularly impressed me (and significantly changed me). I can’t recommend them enough:

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Medea, Euripedes

Faust I, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Steppenwolf and Demian and Poems, Hermann Hesse

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams

Painting and Sculpture in Europe: 1880-1940, George Heard Hamilton

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari

Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, James Elkins

In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust

The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920: The Poetry of Seeing, Doris Krystof

#ask #personal