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Object – Event – Performance Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s
ISBN: HB: 9781941792223, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, July 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms – such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked components – that pose...
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£36,00
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Distant Early Warning Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde
ISBN: PB: 9780226753454, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) is best known as a media theorist – many consider him the founder of media studies – but he was an important theorist of art, too. A near-household name for decades, McLuhan remains a fascinating and even cultish figure i...
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Pulp Empire A Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism
ISBN: HB: 9780226350554, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 colour plates, 6 halftones
In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular – and most unfiltered – entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages,...
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Art in a Disrupted World Poland 1939–1949
ISBN: PB: 9788364177750, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! With Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish-born a...
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Bound by Creativity How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged
ISBN: PB: 9780226784694, ISBN: HB: 9780226784557, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is in fact deeply social. From those trying to land their first solo show to those with dozens of museum exhibitions, artists...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Objects in Air Artworks and Their Outside around 1900
ISBN: HB: 9780226764771, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones
Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently connected to the viewer through the very air we b...
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£36,00
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Performing Human Rights Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
ISBN: PB: 9783035802610, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 30 halftones
The invisibilization of political violence, its material traces, and spatial manifestations, characterizes conflict and post-conflict situations. Yet, artists, writers, and human rights activists increasingly seek to challenge this invisibility, cont...
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£40,00
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Ducks on Parade!
ISBN: HB: 9781684580415, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 76 colour plates
Inspired by Robert McCloskey's beloved children's book of the same name, the iconic bronze Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in Boston's Public Garden has come to serve as something of a record of the recent decades of life in the city itself. In a se...
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£12,00
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Wood Engraving The Art of Wood Engraving and Relief Engraving
ISBN: PB: 9781684580484, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones
Written and illustrated by master wood engraver Barry Moser, this primer on the art of wood engraving is filled with valuable knowledge including how to prepare a printing block; how to think in the medium's properties of line, shape, and ink; and ho...
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£23,00
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What is Contemporary Art?
ISBN: PB: 9783035801453, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
104 pp., 16.9x11 cm, 8 halftones
Art today is often practiced in perfect conformity with the neoliberal zeitgeist, often even denying its own radical potential".What is Contemporary Art?" lucidly examines the relationship between art and politics in our time. Addressing the heart of...
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£14,00
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