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Architecture

Hawksmoor's London Churches Architecture and Theology

du Prey Pierre de la Ruffiniere

ISBN: PB: 9780226173030, University of Chicago Press, December 2002
200 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 12 colour plates, 65 halftones

Six remarkable churches built by Nicholas Hawksmoor from 1712 to 1731 still stand in London. In this book, architectural historian Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey examines these designs as a coherent whole – a single masterpiece reflecting both Hawks...

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Cartography

Spying with Maps Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534282, University of Chicago Press, November 2002
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 58 line drawings

Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and disli...

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Contemporary Art

Venus in Exile The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art

Steiner Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226772400, University of Chicago Press, November 2002
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 halftones

In "Venus in Exile" renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists, feminists, and activists, beauty and its major symbols of art – the female subject and or...

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History of Art

Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture

Fryer Heather

ISBN: PB: 9781892850041, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2002
113 pp., 25.7x25.7 cm

The American West has had an enormous influence on the nation's imagination, including its fine art. From the Western Realists – as epitomized by the Cowboy Artists of America's mission to produce "authentic representations of life in the West" – to...

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History of Art

Confronting Identities in German Art Myths, Reactions, Reflections

Heller Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780935573367, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
180 pp., 28.1x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

What does it mean to be German? Recent answers to this question have ranged from the general ("Germans are always the other") to the analytic ("They are a multiple identity with a constant wish for redefinition"). The catalogue for "Confronting Ident...

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History of Art

Sculpture Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream

Herder Johann Gottfried

ISBN: PB: 9780226327556, ISBN: HB: 9780226327532, University of Chicago Press, October 2002
141 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 15 halftones

Long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century works on aesthetics and the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's Plastik (Sculpture, 1778) has never before appeared in a complete English translation. In this landmark essay, Herder c...

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History of Art

Well-Fashioned Image Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850

Weaver Elissa B., Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573350, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 8 colour plates, 40 halftones

Fashion – the question of what to wear and how to wear it – is a centuries-old obsession. Beyond superficial concerns with personal appearance, the history of dress points to deep preoccupations surrounding the social order, national identity, and mo...

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Linguistics

Form and Meaning in Language Volume I: Papers on Semantic Roles

Fillmore Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9781575862866, ISBN: HB: 9781575862859, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2002
311 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The early papers collected here trace a trajectory through the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore over his long and distinguished career – reflecting his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of lan...

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Philosophy

Waiting for Foucault, Still

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780971757509, University of Chicago Press, August 2002
96 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pear Press in 1993, this expanded edition of "Waiting for Foucault" represents some of th...

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Music

Biography & Memoires

Darker Side of Genius Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism

Katz Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9781584652403, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption victims of Hitler have also associated Wagner and hi...

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