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![Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBOC9ucXc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1d8bde8d0232d7fb56d5a2dae909368500faf4ee/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Pictures%20and%20Tears-%20A%20History%20of%20People%20Who%20Have%20Cried%20in%20Front%20of%20Paintings.jpg)
296 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780415937139
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 14 September 2001
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...
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![Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBOC9ucXc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1d8bde8d0232d7fb56d5a2dae909368500faf4ee/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Pictures%20and%20Tears-%20A%20History%20of%20People%20Who%20Have%20Cried%20in%20Front%20of%20Paintings.jpg)
296 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780415937139
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 14 September 2001
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...