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

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

James Elkins

296 pages first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction art history reflective medium-paced
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Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about th...

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