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Photography

Box of Photographs

Grenier Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226308319, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
120 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 16 halftones

Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Ted Lambert The Man Behind the Paintings

Lambert Ted

ISBN: PB: 9781602231658, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 colour illus.

Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a co...

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Contemporary Art

Film Studies

Matt Saunders Parallel Plot

Saunders Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780226736037, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
128 pp., 23x15 cm, 45 colour illus.

Berlin-based artist Matt Saunders has in recent years captured the art world's eye with a striking series of hybrid images and animated films produced using techniques from both photography and painting. Using movie stars such as German actress Herth...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Neer Richard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.

In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2012, Issue 31

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381010, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
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 the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year, "Afterall" also features essays...

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History of Art

Quality Instinct Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

Anderson Maxwell L.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253671, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
236 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 60 colour illus.

How do we judge what is good in art? And more to the point, can we even judge art? These questions have long spawned heated conversations about objectivity, subjectivity, and qualitative judgment that span both the academic and art worlds. Acclaimed...

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Decorative Arts

Treasuring the Gaze Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: HB: 9780226309668, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
300 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 53 halftones, 24 colour illus.

The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more convent...

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Design

Exhibitions Concept, Planning and Design

Klobe Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781933253695, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Good exhibition design promotes thought and feeling through the creation of an emotionally charged space – an environment that engulfs visitors, pulls them forward, and draws them into the story and its meaning", writes Tom Klobe in "Exhibitions". H...

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History of Art

Czech Modern Painters 1888-1918

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: HB: 9788024620725, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2013
207 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 29 halftones, 130 colour illus.

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Dealing with not only specific artists in the context of their national identity, but also with overarching themes in the rise of modernism, "Czech Modern Painters" is an articulate and we...

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Photography

Media Studies

John Heartfield and the Agitated Image Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage

Zervigon Andres Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226981772, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 134 halftones, 9 colour illus.

Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891-1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. A pioneer of modern photomontage, he assembled images that...

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