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Journey to Nine Islands

ISBN: PB: 9780939914098, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
96 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, colour illus.

Accompanied by charming and accessible text, the floral centerfolds of "Journey to Nine Islands" invite the reader to participate in the world of the Chicago Botanic Garden – one of the nation's most visited public gardens and a preeminent center for...

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History of Art

Eskimo Drawings

Jones Suzi

ISBN: PB: 9781885267054, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
208 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm

Originally published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and co-curated by Suzi Jones and Walter Van Horn, "Eskimo Drawings" marks the first time that Alaska Eskimo artwork has been the exclusive...

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History of Art

Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France

Ward Martha, Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780935573442, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2008
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 8 colour plates, 67 halftones

Different eras experience art in different ways – often dramatically so".Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France", the catalog to an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art, uses a selection of prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and re...

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History of Art

Again Selected Interviews and Essays

Blair Dike

ISBN: PB: 9780945323143, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2007
144 pp., 21.4x17.4 cm, 24 colour plates

Dike Blair is part of a tradition of artists who also write. From an early point in his career Blair has worked on parallel paths, with his writing both reflecting and influencing his artistic production. His paintings and sculptures celebrate moment...

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Photography

Chicago under Glass Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News

Jacob Mark, Cahan Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226089300, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
272 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 260 duotones

When the "Chicago Daily News" closed its doors in March 1978 after over a century of publication, the city mourned the loss of an American original".The Daily News" boasted the inventive, aggressive writing of such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and Ben...

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History of Art

Pollock Matters

Landau Ellen G., Cernuschi Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781892850133, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2007
178 pp., 28x28 cm, 282 colour plates

Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademark "drip" technique in which he poured paint from its can directly onto the canvas".Pollock Matters...

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Photography

Military

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War

Gilbertson Ashley

ISBN: HB: 9780226293257, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
260 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour plates

Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U. S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as l...

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Contemporary Art

Other Criteria Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771854, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 295 halftones

Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flatbed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Anarchist Modernism Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde

Antliff Allan

ISBN: PB: 9780226021041, ISBN: HB: 9780226021034, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
314 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 84 halftones

The relationship of the anarchist movement to American art during the World War I era is most often described as a "tenuous affinity" between two distinct spheres: political and artistic. In "Anarchist Modernism" – the first in-depth exploration of t...

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Decorative Arts

Jewish Studies

Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses The Synagogue to the Carousel, Jewish Carving Traditions

Zimiles Murray

ISBN: HB: 9781584656371, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2007
196 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Based on more than 20 years of original research in Europe, Israel, and the United States by artist Murray Zimiles, and accompanied by an essay by distinguished Judaica scholar Vivian B.Mann, this book is the first fully developed study of the secula...

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