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History of Art

Stevenson Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780300095340, Yale University Press, May 2002
256 pp., 28.3x24.2 cm, 100 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) was a pioneer photographer, a painter and lithographer. In 1843, he entered into partnership with the young photographer, Robert Adamson, and in the next four years they took an extraordinary body of work, which has in...

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Contemporary Art

Ecology

Ecologies Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573329, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 2001
96 pp., 22.8x16.4 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones

Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavor that has required new strategies in art-making. To explore recent American manifestations of these interests, the David and Alfred Smart Museum commissio...

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History of Art

Pre-Raphaelite Landscape

Staley Allen

ISBN: HB: 9780300084085, Yale University Press, May 2001
320 pp., 33x24.8 cm, 100 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

Allen Staley's book The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape ignited a revival of interest in Pre-Raphaelite painting nearly three decades ago. Reintroducing the small group of young English artists who in 1848 founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, this landma...

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History of Art

Legends in Limestone Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun

Seidel Linda

ISBN: HB: 9780226745152, University of Chicago Press, October 1999
200 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 78 halftones, 9 line drawings, 2 maps, 2 tables

Whereas twelfth-century pilgrims flocked to the church of St-Lazare in Autun to visit the relics of its patron saint, present-day pilgrims journey there to admire its superb sculpture, said to have been created by the artist Gislebertus whose name is...

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Contemporary Art

Arts Club of Chicago The Collection 1916-1996

Shaw Sophia

ISBN: PB: 9780964344037, University of Chicago Press, January 1998
136 pp., 29.7x23.4 cm, 31 colour plates, 44 halftones

Founded in 1916, the "Arts Club of Chicago" has long been committed to innovation in the visual and performing arts. Through the years, important commissions, purchases, and gifts from artists and patrons have formed an impressive collection of moder...

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History of Art

Largesse

Starobinski Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226771366, ISBN: HB: 9780226771359, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
220 pp., 30x21.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 50 halftones

In 1990 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made their holdings available to guest curators for a program called Parti Pris, or "Taking Sides". In this program, major cultural figures outside of the discipline of art history organized exhibi...

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Contemporary Art

Transforming the Crown African, Asian, and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996

Sirmans M. Franklin, Beauchamp-Byrd Mora J.

ISBN: PB: 9780965408202, University of Chicago Press, March 1997
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 73 colour plates, 175 halftones

Transforming the Crown is the catalog for a landmark exhibition organized by the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute in New York City. The exhibition chronicles the aesthetic production of artists of African and Asian descent in the...

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History of Art

Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771878, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
426 pp., 23.4x19.8 cm, 300 halftones

Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Smibert Colonial America's First Portrait Painter

Saunders Richard H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300042580, Yale University Press, November 1995
294 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 284 black&white illus., 26 colour plates

John Smibert was the first portrait painter of distinction to attempt to carve out an existence in colonial America. This text is both a catalogue raisonne of Smibert's work and a discussion of his life and career.

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Contemporary Art

Biography & Memoires

Writings/Interviews

Serra Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226748801, University of Chicago Press, August 1994
286 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones

One of the most important sculptors of this century, Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether u...

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