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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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Contemporary Art

Alchemy of Comedy... Stupid

Arceneaux Edgar

ISBN: PB: 9780945323112, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2007
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 74 colour plates

"Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy... Stupid" documents a multi-channel installation by contemporary video artist Edgar Arceneaux. Centered on video footage of popular comedian David Alan Grier, the artwork examines the nuances and structures of...

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Cartography

Cartographies of Travel and Navigation

Akerman James R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010748, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 81 halftones, 4 line drawings

Finding one's way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of m...

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Polonica

Europe

When God Looked the Other Way An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption

Adamczyk Wesley

ISBN: PB: 9780226004440, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 maps

Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. S...

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Philosophy

Gender Studies

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution Gender and the Seductions of Islamism

Afary Janet, Anderson Kevin B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226007861, ISBN: HB: 9780226007854, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for "Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur". During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault tr...

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Philosophy

Camus and Sartre The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It

Aronson Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780226000244, ISBN: HB: 9780226027968, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
302 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold War, like that conflict itself, demanded those caught in its wake to take sides ra...

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History of Art

Art in Mind How Contemporary Images Shape Thought

Alphen Ernst van

ISBN: PB: 9780226015293, ISBN: HB: 9780226015286, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 72 halftones

Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In "Art in Mind", Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intelle...

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Philosophy

State of Exception

Agamben Giorgio

ISBN: PB: 9780226009254, ISBN: HB: 9780226009247, University of Chicago Press, January 2005
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a militar...

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History of Art

Cezanne and Provence The Painter in His Culture

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer Nina Maria

ISBN: HB: 9780226423081, University of Chicago Press, May 2003
337 pp., 28.3x22.4 cm, 120 colour plates, 102 halftones

In 1886 Paul Cezanne left Paris permanently to settle in his native Aix-en-Provence. Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer argues that, far from an escapist venture like Gauguin's stay in Brittany or Monet's visits to Normandy, Cezanne's departure from Pari...

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Philosophy

Love and Saint Augustine

Arendt Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780226025971, University of Chicago Press, April 1998
254 pp., 23x15 cm

Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt...

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