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Allure of Matter Material Art from China
ISBN: HB: 9780935573602, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
264 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 257 colour plates
From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works–in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco–form a major trend in Chinese art. "The Allure of Matter" offers the first serious consideration of...
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£34,00
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"Writing" of Modern Life The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940
ISBN: PB: 9780935573459, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2009
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 75 halftones
What is it about etching that renders it – according to both the poet-critic Charles Baudelaire and the visionary artist Samuel Palmer – a medium of writing? And, moreover, what makes etching equally adaptable to the expression of both memory and mod...
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£15,00
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Displacement The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art
ISBN: PB: 9780935573466, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2008
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates
When it is completed in 2009 the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric dam which spans the Yangzi River in China, will generate enough electricity to power four cities the size of Los Angeles. Despite the fact that it will drastically reduce coal consump...
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£22,50
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Between Past and Future New Photography and Video from China
ISBN: HB: 9780935573398, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, June 2004
224 pp., 28.5x25.6 cm, 75 colour images, 40 halftones
The massive political, economic, and social changes China has undergone during the past decade have dramatically altered its cultural landscape. The exhibition "New Photography from China" and its catalogue offer the first comprehensive look at the b...
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£30,00
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Confronting Identities in German Art Myths, Reactions, Reflections
ISBN: PB: 9780935573367, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
180 pp., 28.1x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones
What does it mean to be German? Recent answers to this question have ranged from the general ("Germans are always the other") to the analytic ("They are a multiple identity with a constant wish for redefinition"). The catalogue for "Confronting Ident...
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£20,50
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Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
ISBN: PB: 9780935573336, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2000
224 pp., 28.1x18.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 29 halftones
In his new book, Wu Hung raises timely questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Here, as in the Smart Museum's exhibition "Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China", Wu uses the government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me (Beiji...
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£32,00
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