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Contemporary Art

Gutai Decentering Modernism

Tiampo Ming

ISBN: PB: 9780226801667, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 69 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Gutai" is the first book in English to examine Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental...

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Contemporary Art

Of What One Cannot Speak Doris Salcedo's Political Art

Bal Mieke

ISBN: HB: 9780226035789, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 23.4x18.3 cm, 31 halftones, 28 colour illus.

Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in orde...

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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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Music

Contemporary Art

Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths

Corbett John, Elms Anthony, Kapsalis Terri

ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.

Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...

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History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2010, Issue 25

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380693, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
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

Tragic Muse Art and Emotion, 1700-1900

Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573497, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2010
128 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 75 colour illus.

Art is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darker emotions, such as fear, sadness, and grief. And while these themes have an artistic history dating ba...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Real Real Thing The Model in the Mirror of Art

Steiner Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9780226772196, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
232 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 halftones

Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and "America's Next Top Model" to the snapshots we post on Facebook and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing. In thi...

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Anthropology

Producing Local Color Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago

Grams Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780226305172, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 7 figures, 2 tables, 2 halftones

In big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond the cultural core ruled by these moneyed institutions and their patrons are vibrant, local communities of artists and art lovers operating beneath...

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Photography

Still Rainin' Still Dreamin' Hall Anderson's Ketchikan

Anderson Hall

ISBN: PB: 9781889963907, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
118 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 halftones

A staff photographer for the Ketchikan Daily News, Hall Anderson counted among his early influences photographers like Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who understood the visual bounty to be found in photographing the candid side of life. For...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan

Tsiang Katherine R.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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