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Design Discourse History, Theory, Criticism

Margolin Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780226505145, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
302 pp., 25.2x17.7 cm, 71 halftones, 30 line drawings

Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In "Design Discourse", Victor Margolin gathers together a b...

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Contemporary Art

Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World, 1940-1985

Crane Diana

ISBN: PB: 9780226117904, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
204 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones

With the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana Crane documents the transformation of the New York art world between 1940 and 1985, both in the artistic styles that emerged during this p...

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History of Art

Making of Paul Klee's Career, 1914-1920

Werckmeister Otto Karl

ISBN: HB: 9780226893587, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
343 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 halftones

Paul Klee – one of the preeminent artists of the twentieth century – was associated with all of the major movements of the first half of the century: expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and abstraction. In this economic and political history, O. K. We...

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Contemporary Art

William D Berry 1954-1956 Field Sketches

Berry Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780912006369, ISBN: HB: 9780912006345, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 1989
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm

This book offers a unique glimpse of Alaska and its creatures, rendered on paper by a man who loved and respected them. William D. Berry was nationally known as a wildlife artist, but to many Alaskans, he was also a kind of state treasure and certain...

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History of Art

Visitable Past Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915

Lovell Margaretta M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226494128, University of Chicago Press, April 1989
139 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 92 halftones, 17 maps

In this ambitious and imaginative study, Margaretta M. Lovell analyzes the large body of accomplished, sometimes startling, often brilliant work of American artists drawn to Venice's ragged splendor in the last century. Including major works by such...

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History of Art

Absorption and Theatricality Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot

Fried Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226262130, University of Chicago Press, September 1988
268 pp., 25.5x17.9 cm, 70 halftones

With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood. Contents: Preface List of Illustrations 1. The Primacy of Absorption 2. Toward a Supreme Fiction 3. P...

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History of Art

Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1 Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944

Greenberg Clement

ISBN: PB: 9780226306216, University of Chicago Press, February 1988
296 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 line drawings

Contents: Acknowledgments Editorial Note Introduction by John O'Brian 1939 1. The Beggar's Opera – After Marx: Review of A Penny for the Poor by Bertolt Brecht 2. Avant-Garde and Kitsch 1940 3. Towards a Newer Laocoon 4. An American View...

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History of Art

Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2 Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949

Greenberg Clement

ISBN: PB: 9780226306223, University of Chicago Press, February 1988
374 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones

Contents: Acknowledgments Editorial Note Foreword by John O'Brian 1945 1. Trail Blazer: Review of Williatn Sidney Mount by Bartlett Cowdrey and Hermann Warner Williams Jr. 2. Obituary and Review of an Exhibition of Kandinsky 3. Review of Exhibitio...

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History of Art

Iconology Image, Text, Ideology

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532295, University of Chicago Press, July 1987
236 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 line drawings

Acknowledgments Introduction: Iconology Part One: The Idea of Imagery 1. What Is an Image? Part Two: Image versus Text Figures of the Differences 2. Pictures and Paragraphs: Nelson Goodman and the Grammar of Differences 3. Nature and Convention: Go...

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History of Art

Artists Behind the Work Life Histories of Nick Charles, Sr., Frances Demientieff, Lena Sours, Jennie Thlunaut

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780931163029, University of Chicago Press, November 1986
149 pp., 27.7x21.6 cm

This book features the life history and craft of four Alaska Native artists. As a group, the artists represent four different Native cultures and four different art forms: Nicholas Charles, Sr., a Yup'ik Eskimo known for his carved and painted wood m...

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