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Photography

Past's Threshold Essays on Photography

Kracauer Siegfried

ISBN: PB: 9783037346914, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 40 halftones

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work of many of the...

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Photography

Kracauer. Photographic Archive

Zinfert Maria

ISBN: HB: 9783037346716, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 30 colour plates, 280 halftones

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading figure on the Weimar arts scene and one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work o...

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History of Art

Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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History of Art

Communities of Style Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226105611, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings

"Communities of Style" examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and...

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History of Art

Resisting Abstraction Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Hughes Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780226159065, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
184 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour plates, 46 halftones

Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With "Resisting Abstraction", the first Engli...

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Contemporary Art

Immersive Life Practices

Tucker Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780982879849, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Much ink has been spilled on how art intersects with the experiences of everyday life. But what about art grappling with how to live differently? Artists occupy an exceptional space where their livelihood permeates all aspects of life, eroding bounda...

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Contemporary Art

Picture This! Painting the Women's Movement

Garwa Radhaben

ISBN: HB: 9789381017685, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
200 pp., 21.5x27.9 cm, 200 colour plates

From her home in a small village in the Kutch district of Gujarat, Dalit artist Radhaben Garwa has documented the rural women's movement in Western India and beyond through her drawings. Her images – more than two hundred of them gathered here – tell...

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History of Art

Architecture

Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India

Ruggles D. Fairchild

ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones

Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Support Networks

Satinsky Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...

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Contemporary Art

Jan Koblasa Grafika Prints

Neslehova Mahulena

ISBN: PB: 9788024625218, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
328 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A key personality in Czech modern art, Jan Koblasa works in diverse media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking, and he also makes costumes for the stage and screen, wri...

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