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Visible Empire Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780226058535, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 24.1x22 cm, 1 table, 2 halftones, 99 colour illus.

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collect...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2011, Issue 28

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380822, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

"Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, offers in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists along with essays that broaden how to understand it. "Issue 28" maps a history of objects, photography and experience. The article...

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History of Art

Literary Criticism

Brush and the Pen Odilon Redon and Literature

Gamboni Dario

ISBN: HB: 9780226280554, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 halftones

French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded t...

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History of Art

Controversy of Renaissance Art

Nagel Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226567723, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
376 pp., 25.7x22.4 cm, 100 halftones, 60 colour illus.

Many studies have shown that images – their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses – were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it aff...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Ion Grigorescu In the Body of the Victim

Dziewanska Marta

ISBN: PB: 9788392404415, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
312 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 177 halftones, 20 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The book "Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim" is an attempt to read the works of one of the most charismatic and original artists from the former Eastern bloc, who until 1989 worked in relative isolation, and whose ar...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Alina Szapocznikow Awkward Objects

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788392404460, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
288 pp., 19x14 cm, 85 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The volume entitled, "Alina Szapocznikow" is a collection of materials from the international conference "Alina Szapocznikow. Works. Documents. Interpretations". (May 15-16, 2009), which accompanied the exhibition organised...

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History of Art

Pamphilj and the Arts Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome

Leone Stephanie C.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850171, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, July 2011
200 pp., 30.5x21.5 cm, 101 halftones, 15 colour illus.

In September 1644 the election of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj catapulted his family to the height of Roman society. From that moment on, the Pamphilj became active patrons of the arts, which were harnessed as the visual expression of the family's new id...

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History of Art

Afterall Summer 2011, Issue 27

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that not only offers in-depth consideration of contemporary art from around the world, but also insightful contextualization of works from a diverse array of artists. Articles on art history and cr...

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History of Art

Afterall Spring 2011, Issue 26

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380754, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates

"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...

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History of Art

Writing Art History Disciplinary Departures

Iversen Margaret, Melville Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226388267, ISBN: HB: 9780226388250, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 30 halftones

Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of...

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