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Pictures & Tears
Pictures & Tears
A History of People Who Have Cried
in Front of Paintings
James Elkins
Routledge
New York and London
Excerpts from A Rakes Progress by W.H.Auden. Copyright ? 1951 by W.H.Auden.
On the Death of His Wife by Mei Yao Chen, translated by Kenneth Rexroth, and A Dream
at Night by Mei Yao Chen, translated by Kenneth Rexroth, from One Hundred Poems from
the Chinese, edited by Kenneth Rexroth, copyright ? 1971 by Kenneth Rexroth. Reprinted by
permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Elkins, James, 1955C
Pictures and tears: a history of people who have cried in front of paintings/
James Elkins.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-97053-9 (pbk)
1. PaintingAppreciation. 2. Visual perceptionPsychological aspects.
I. Title.
ND1143.E442001
750,11Cdc21
2001019659
ISBN 0-203-99032-3 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-415-97053-9 (pbk)
Contents
Colorplates
v
Preface
vi
Acknowledgments
viii
1
Crying at nothing but colors
1
2
Crying no one can understand
15
3
Crying from chromatic waves
30
4
Crying because youve been hit by a lightning bolt
42
5
Weeping over bluish leaves
57
6
The ivory tower of tearlessness
70
7
False tears over a dead bird
84
8
Crying because time passes
100
9
Weeping, watching the Madonna weep
124
10
Crying at God
136
11
Sobbing in lonely mountains
148
12
Crying at the empty sea of faith
159
Envoi: How to look and possibly even be moved
166
Appendix: Thirty-two letters
176
Sources
197
Index
203
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