James Elkins is E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
1. Marks
Traces
Traits
Contours
Orli
and Splendors; 2. The anti-splendor; 3. Figure and Ground in Philosophy
Neurophysiology
Phenomenology
Psychology
Painting
and Psychoanalysis; 4. The signs of writing; 5. The common origins of pictures
writing
and notation; 6. Different horizons for the concept of image; 7. Nine steps down the ladder of disorder; 8. The unrepresentable
the unpicturable
the inconceivable
the unseeable.
