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Proximity to Power, American Style
ISBN: PB: 9780945323181, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2008
108 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 colour plates, 45 halftones
Just in time for the 2008 election, WhiteWalls presents a comprehensive collection of Silvia Kolbowski's wry and searching responses to the questionable actions of the American government, as well as recent national shifts in legal, corporate, and cu...
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£11,50
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Sleeping Beauty A One-Artist Dictionary
ISBN: HB: 9780226035529, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
136 pp., 29.2x23.9 cm, 33 colour plates
The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist and critic".Sleeping Beauty" ties these disparate strands of our everyday lives together only to strip away everything we thought we knew about each of them...
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£34,50
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Moved by Love Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: PB: 9780226752884, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
320 pp., 24.9x17.5 cm, 63 halftones
In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual devianc...
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£25,00
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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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With Love From Haha Essays and Notes on a Collective Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780945323136, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, September 2008
172 pp., 22.6x19 cm, 120 colour plates, 27 halftones
Since its inception in 1988, the art collective Haha has created twenty-one projects – including sculptural installations, community-based projects, and video works – in the United States and Europe. Members Richard House, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer,...
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£19,00
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Mystic Masque Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958
ISBN: PB: 9781892850140, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 2008
600 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 200 colour and halftone plates
In the fifty years since Georges Rouault's death, his paintings have fallen from the heights of popularity in the 1940s and 50s to the depths of neglect in recent years. The publication of "Mystic Masque", which accompanies an exhibition of the same...
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£60,00
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Loving Yusuf Conceptual Travels from Present to Past
ISBN: PB: 9780226035871, ISBN: HB: 9780226035864, University of Chicago Press, July 2008
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 halftones
When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In "Loving Yusuf", Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and tex...
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£25,00
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£56,00
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Art and Eskimo Power The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock
ISBN: PB: 9781602230217, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2008
258 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, black and white photos
At Howard Rock's birth, a shaman predicted that he would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people fro...
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£13,00
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Thaddeus Strode Absolutes and Nothings
ISBN: HB: 9780936316246, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2008
80 pp., 32.5x24.1 cm, 28 colour plates
Thaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books".Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist's first ma...
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£22,50
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On the Margins
ISBN: HB: 9780936316253, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2008
64 pp., 33x22.9 cm, 36 colour plates
The iconography of war and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world".On the Margins" brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages th...
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£22,50
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