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What Is an Image?Art and Globalizationt h e s t o n e a r t t h e o r y i n s t i t u t e s : v o l u m e t h r e eWhat Do Artists Know?Edited by James Elkins and Maja NaefNew in PaperbackEdited by James Elkins, ZhivkaValiavicharska, and Alice KimEdited by James Elkins“This book asks one of the most important ques-“What Is an Image? offers a richly informative, wideranging,and open-ended ensemble of ideas andviewpoints that significantly advances the scholarlyconversation. One of the great virtues of the volumeis that it breaks with the standardized formatof much academic writing to allow the coexistenceof a plurality of voices and opinions. The reader isallowed to ‘listen in’ on a discussion that takes placeat the cutting edge of current research and therebygains a clear overview of the issues at stake inreconceptualizing the image.”—Jason Gaiger,University of OxfordAmong the major writers represented in this bookare Gottfried Boehm, Michael Ann Holly, JacquelineLichtenstein, W. J. T. Mitchell, Marie-José Mondzain,Keith Moxey, Parul Dave Mukherji, WolframPichler, Alex Potts, and Adrian Rifkin.296 pages | 3 illustrations | 7 x 10 | 2011isbn 978-0-271-05064-5 | cloth: $84.95 shisbn 978-0-271-05065-2 | paper: $34.95 shThe Stone Art Theory Institutes SeriesNew in Paperback“This multivoiced volume successfully evokes thevastness of artistic production on a global scale. Theconversations, assessments, and programmatic introductionsand afterword make it crystal clear thatif art is to be understood in global terms, the tasksof conceptual clarification, concept development,and methodological innovation must be taken upwith intelligence, honesty, and energy, and in a waythat takes thinking about art well beyond the usualparochialisms.” —Mette Hjort,Lingnan University, Hong KongThinkers contributing to this volume include RasheedAraeen, Joaquín Barriendos, Susan Buck-Morss,John Clark, Iftikhar Dadi, T. J. Demos, Néstor GarcíaCanclini, Charles Green, Suman Gupta, Harry Harootunian,Michael Ann Holly, Shigemi Inaga, FredricJameson, Caroline Jones, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann,Anthony D. King, Partha Mitter, Keith Moxey, SaskiaSassen, Ming Tiampo, and C. J. W.-L. Wee.304 pages | 1 illustration | 7 x 10 | 2010isbn 978-0-271-03717-2 | paper: $39.95 shThe Stone Art Theory Institutes SeriesWHAT DO ARTISTS KNOW?Edited by James Elkinstions in contemporary art, and James Elkins’s wayof asking it is idiosyncratic, original, and inclusive.Anyone who is interested in the intelligence of art,or in the idea of art as a process of enquiry, will findthis book informative and engrossing. What DoArtists Know? is a must for graduate art students,emerging artists, and those faculty who currentlythink they know all they need to know.”—Timothy Emlyn Jones, Dean of the Burren College of Art, IrelandEach of the five volumes in the Stone Art TheoryInstitutes series, and the seminars on which theyare based, brings together a range of scholars whoare not always directly familiar with one another’swork. What Do Artists Know? is about the educationof artists. This book is about the theories thatunderwrite art education at all levels, the pertinenthistory of art education, and the most promisingcurrent conceptualizations.The contributors are Glenn Adamson, Rina Arya, LouisaAvgita, Jan Baetens, Su Baker, Jeroen Boomgaard,Brad Buckley, William Conger, John Conomos,Anders Dahlgren, Laurie Fendrich, Michael Fotiadis,Christopher Frayling, Charles Green, Vanalyne Green,t h e s t o n e a r t t h e o r y i n s t i t u t e s : v o l u m e t w ot h e s t o n e a r t t h e o r y i n s t i t u t e s : v o l u m e o n eTom McGuirk, Robert Nelson, Håkan Nilsson, PeterPlagens, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Howard Singerman,Henk Slager, George Smith, Martin Søberg, RoySorensen, Bert Taken, Janneke Wesseling, FrancesWhitehead, Gary Willis, and Yeung Yang.240 pages | 7 x 10 | 2012isbn 978-0-271-05424-7 | cloth: $74.95 shThe Stone Art Theory Institutes SeriesWHAT IS AN IMAGE?“An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal.” — Paul KleeEdited by James Elkins and Maja NaefArt And GlobAlizAtionEdited by James Elkins, zhivka Valiavicharska, and Alice Kim32 | penn state press www.psupress.org | 33