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Nikolaj Evreinov "The Storming of the Winter Palace"
ISBN: PB: 9783037349915, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2017
250 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 85 halftones
In 1920, on the third anniversary of the October Revolution, dramatist Nikolai Evreinov directed a cast of 10,000 actors, dancers, and circus performers – as well as a convoy of armored cars and tanks – in "The Storming of the Winter Palace". The mas...
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£30,00
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Towards an Aesthetics of Production
ISBN: PB: 9783037348857, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
208 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones
Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles D...
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£22,50
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Computer Game Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9783035800135, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
350 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 180 halftones
Computer games have become ubiquitous in today's society. Many scholars have speculated on the reasons for their massive success. Yet we haven't considered the most basic questions: Why do computer games exist? What specific circumstances led to the...
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£37,50
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Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even
ISBN: PB: 9783035800081, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2017
96 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
"Breaking Bad" is known for its grim and gritty outbursts of anger and violence. In the chaotic story of a meth-dealing high school chemistry teacher, time seems to collapse, and we feel as though the lives of the characters are moving inevitably clo...
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£13,50
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Dr. Freud, Fish Whisperer
ISBN: HB: 9783035800074, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, fully illustrated in colour
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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£10,99
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Albert Einstein's Bright Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9783037349359, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour thoughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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£10,99
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Diogenes the Dog-Man
ISBN: HB: 9783037349335, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, fully illustrated in colour
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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£10,99
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Social Media – New Masses
ISBN: PB: 9783037346426, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2017
376 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones
Mass gatherings are at the center of contemporary discussions about community formation, communication, and social control. As new digital technologies and social media platforms have emerged, the concept of the mass gathering has evolved in parallel...
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£48,00
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Visualizing Portuguese Power The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)
ISBN: HB: 9783037347423, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates, 120 halftones
Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effecti...
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£56,50
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No New Kind of Duck Would I Know How to Say What I Do?
ISBN: PB: 9783037349465, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 19x13.3 cm, 90 colour plates
What do we learn by making art? What do we discover by discussing our art with other people? These are the questions at the heart of "No New Kind of Duck", which documents an exchange between Jan Verwoert and artists, critics, and other researchers a...
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£22,50
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