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Philosophy

Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226143156, University of Chicago Press, June 2003
321 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Derrida's first book-length work, "The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy", was originally written as a dissertation for his diplome d'etudes superieures in 1953 and 1954. Surveying Husserl's major works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what...

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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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Contemporary Art

Toni Grand

Diserens Corrine

ISBN: HB: 9780941548434, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2002
60 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 13 halftones

This catalogue is the first English-language monograph on the work of this French sculptor, who gained critical recognition as a member of the French movement Supports-Surfaces, founded in 1970. This group viewed the formal relationships between the...

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Philosophy

Phenomenology and Deconstruction Volume Three: Breakdown in Communication

Denoon Cumming Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226123714, ISBN: HB: 9780226123707, University of Chicago Press, July 2001
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Philosophers are committed to objective understanding, but the history of philosophy demonstrates how frequently one philosopher misunderstands another. The most notorious such breakdown in communication in twentieth-century philosophy was between Hu...

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Philosophy

Phenomenology and Deconstruction Volume Four: Solitude

Denoon Cumming Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226123738, ISBN: HB: 9780226123721, University of Chicago Press, July 2001
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this final volume of Robert Denoon Cumming's four-volume history of the phenomenological movement, Cumming examines the bearing of Heidegger's philosophy on his original commitment to Nazism and on his later inability to face up to the implication...

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History of Art

Transforming Images The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

Donnelley Robert G., Greene Candace S., Berlo Janet Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780935573312, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, March 2001
216 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 15 black&white photographs

Silver Horn's lifespan (1860-1940) placed him in the midst of extreme cultural transformations: by the time of his death, highways, silos, and gas stations dominated the land that had, at his birth, been the domain of buffalo herds and Plains Indians...

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Philosophy

Jacques Derrida

Derrida Jacques, Bennington Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226042626, ISBN: HB: 9780226042619, University of Chicago Press, June 1999
432 pp., 23x15 cm

This extraordinary book offers a clear and compelling biography of Jacques Derrida along with one of Derrida's strangest and most unexpected texts. Geoffrey Bennington's account of Derrida leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet widel...

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History of Art

Still More Distant Journeys The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall

D'Alessandro Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573190, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 1998
284 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 137 colour plates, 168 halftones

The first major retrospective of the work of Lasar Segall, this catalog explores the artist's changing cultural and artistic identities as demonstrated in over 224. Segall was an influential artist who infused Brazilian modernism with the color, ps...

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History of Art

Judgment of Paris

Damisch Hubert

ISBN: PB: 9780226135120, ISBN: HB: 9780226135106, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
396 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm, 116 halftones

Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas o...

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Contemporary Art

Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism

Doss Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780226159423, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
462 pp., 22.8x15.3 cm, 137 halftones

In this acclaimed revisionist study, Erika Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Poll...

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