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About Method Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically
ISBN: PB: 9780226759890, ISBN: HB: 9780226449982, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, September 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Scientists' views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramatically throughout history. Different criteria for proper experimentation were privileged at different times, entirely new criteria for securing experimental results emerged...
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Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting in Australia and the United States
ISBN: PB: 9780932171696, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 colour plates
This volume of essays frames a comparative history of landscape painting in Australia and the United States through recent considerations of the Anthropocene, arguing that careful and deep analysis of specific nineteenth-century artworks reveals issu...
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Creative Chicago An Interview Marathon
ISBN: PB: 9780932171672, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2019
192 pp., 22.8x17.1 cm, 100 colour plates
On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago's art and design legacy...
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Scale
ISBN: PB: 9780932171597, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 80 colour plates
Scale is perhaps the most spectacularly overlooked aspect of artistic production. As photographic and digital reproductions have essentially dematerialized art, critical and historical research dealing with scale – both within the American critical t...
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£19,00
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Experience
ISBN: PB: 9780932171634, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, October 2017
216 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 72 colour illus.
In his noteworthy theoretical essay "Experience", Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that humans by nature cannot fully grasp life as lived. If this is so, how capable are we of expressing our experiences in works of art? Despite this formidable challenge, f...
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Circulation
ISBN: PB: 9780932171610, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2017
208 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 58 colour plates
As a category in art history, circulation is rooted in the contemporary context of Internet culture and the digital image. Yet circulation, as a broader concept for the movement of art across time and space in vastly different cultural and media cont...
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Picturing
ISBN: PB: 9780932171573, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2016
216 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 62 colour plates
The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As "Picturing" convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about...
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£18,50
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Images of the West Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880
ISBN: HB: 9780932171542, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, August 2007
136 pp., 28.6x23.3 cm, 100 colour plates
As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U. S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories".Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections", 1860-1880 presents memorable glass-plate photograp...
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£37,00
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Impressionist Giverny A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915
ISBN: PB: 9780932171528, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2007
224 pp., 29.9x22.9 cm, 170 colour plates
Lured by the ineffable beauty represented in Claude Monet's artwork and the promise of painting en plein air, artists from America and across Europe flocked to the French village of Giverny in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transf...
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Winslow Homer Poet of the Sea
ISBN: PB: 9780932171504, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2006
152 pp., 27.9x22.3 cm, 100 colour plates
Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: "Winslow Homer's" raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art".Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea" offers here a fresh ex...
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£34,00
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