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Dewey for Artists
ISBN: PB: 9780226580449, ISBN: HB: 9780226580302, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 24 halftones
John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some of his most important contributions came in his thinking about art. Dewey argued that there is strong social value to be found in art, a...
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£19,00
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£64,00
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Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300233650, Yale University Press, June 2018
312 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 150 colour illus.
The spiritual is everywhere evident in contemporary art, and this publication fulfills a long-awaited need. "Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art" addresses the subject in depth for the first time in over three decades. It significantly bro...
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£55,00
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Lived Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780982879887, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
"A Lived Practice" examines the reciprocal relationship of art and life: Artist-practitioners are shaped by their experiences, and they in turn create and enhance the experience of others. Based on a symposium held at the School of the Art Institute...
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£15,00
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Chicago Makes Modern How Creative Minds Changed Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226389561, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
304 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 30 halftones, 72 colour illus.
Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern – from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooke...
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£33,00
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Studio Reader On the Space of Artists
ISBN: PB: 9780226389615, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
328 pp., 23x18 cm, 69 halftones
The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever si...
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£26,50
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