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![Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNFhFOGc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ab2448d2127ea8f3abd1c634b9dd8273c4c0184c/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Pictures%20&%20Tears-%20A%20History%20of%20People%20Who%20Have%20Cried%20in%20Front%20of%20Paintings.jpg)
272 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780415970532
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 23 February 2004
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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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![Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNFhFOGc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ab2448d2127ea8f3abd1c634b9dd8273c4c0184c/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Pictures%20&%20Tears-%20A%20History%20of%20People%20Who%20Have%20Cried%20in%20Front%20of%20Paintings.jpg)
272 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780415970532
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 23 February 2004
Description
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...