Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One

Positions

1   The space between interesting writing and art history

2   The space between interesting writing and visual studies

3   The space between interesting writing and art theory

4   A manifesto, of sorts

Part Two

Cases

5   The idea of exemplary writing in art history

6   Rosalind Krauss

7   T.J. Clark

8   Alexander Nemerov

9   Benjamin Binstock

10 Leo Steinberg

11 The French poststructural model

12 Salvador Dalí

13 Jean Louis Schefer

14 Hélène Cixous

15 Gilles Deleuze

16 Artworks in Fiction: DeLillo, Proust

Part Three

Theories and Institutions

17 Critical theory, criticism, criticality, critique, Kritik

18 What is an essay? Eleven theories

19 Where is nonfiction taught?

Conclusion

20 Invitation to the reader

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This book exists in three forms:

1. This website.

2. I have taken the 2017 version of this website and made a book out of it (left image at top). The book can be purchased for $22.49 here.

3. A succinct selection from this website is avbailable as a short book (right image at top), published by Edinburgh University Press, available free on Academia.  

As always: all comments, criticism, etc. are welcome. Email jelkins@saic.edu.