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Object – Event – Performance Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s
ISBN: HB: 9781941792223, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, July 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms – such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked components – that pose...
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Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 19
ISBN: PB: 9780226781952, ISBN: HB: 9780226781815, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
624 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A new edition of F. A. Hayek's three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume In this critical entry in the University of Chicago's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Haye...
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£76,00
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Pulp Empire A Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism
ISBN: HB: 9780226350554, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 colour plates, 6 halftones
In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular – and most unfiltered – entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages,...
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£24,00
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What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?
ISBN: PB: 9780226777436, ISBN: HB: 9780226777269, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage – to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Non-Construction An Architectural Gesture in Artistic Research
ISBN: HB: 9783035803488, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 50 halftone
By defining a concept of architecture based on the tactile experience and not on construction, this book allows us to explore both discursive practice as the study of architectural art and the integration of architectural art as a discourse of spatia...
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£32,00
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Tropical Lung exi(s)t(s)
ISBN: PB: 9781632430892, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 22 halftones
Tropical Lung is a collection of writings and drawings from and to a new homeland, a vision of Panama and the Tecumseh Republic where technology is necessary for understanding the ancient, then is erased and transcended by an ever-present electronic...
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£16,00
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Making the Second Ghetto Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
ISBN: PB: 9780226728513, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
First published in 1983 and praised by the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Thomas Sugrue, Arnold R. Hirsch's Making the Second Ghetto is the rare book that has only become more piercingly prescient over the years. Hirsch's classic and groundbreaking wo...
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Insurance Era Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
ISBN: HB: 9780226784380, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an oft-unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry's political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand and manage crime,...
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Porch Meditations on the Edge of Nature
ISBN: HB: 9780226769950, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 6 line drawings
Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we've entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one plac...
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£18,00
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Of Bridges A Poetic and Philosophical Account
ISBN: HB: 9780226735290, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 73 halftones
"Always", wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that we live". Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they...
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