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History of Art

Jewish Studies

Kabbalah and Art

Bronstein Leo

ISBN: PB: 9781584652250, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
148 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Told as a series of reflections, this study traces links between cultures as diverse as pre-Vedic India and late 19th-century France. An array of unrelated artists are all in fact linked by the Kabbalah and the correlation between art and this mystic...

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History of Art

Primitive Art in Civilized Places Second Edition

Price Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226680675, University of Chicago Press, January 2002
176 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm

What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources-including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research, and even comic strips like Doonesbury – Pr...

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History of Art

Juan Munoz

Benezra Neal, Viso Olga M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226042909, University of Chicago Press, October 2001
228 pp., 30.6x25.6 cm, 88 colour plates, 65 halftones

One of the leading artists of his generation, the Spanish sculptor Juan Munoz (1953-2001) was known for his diverse and highly original body of work centering on the narrative possibilities of figures in environments".Juan Munoz" illustrates in full...

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History of Art

Sculpture of the Czech Art Nouveau

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: HB: 9788024602356, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2001
431 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The English version of the major book from Petr Wittlich, which charts the crisis and development of Czech monumental sculpture at the turn of the 19th/20th century and explores the new de...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Louise Bourgeois' Spider The Architecture of Art-Writing

Bal Mieke

ISBN: HB: 9780226035758, University of Chicago Press, June 2001
88 pp., 22x16.8 cm, 25 colour illus.

The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation "Spider" (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It...

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History of Art

Edvard Munch Psyche, Symbol and Expression

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850027, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2001
168 pp., 24.8x21.8 cm, 125 halftones, 24 colour plates

"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?" – Edvard Munch Published in conjunction with a major exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College,"Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression" includes nine essays fr...

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History of Art

Leonardo, The Last Supper

Barcilon Pinin Brambilla, Marani Pietro C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226504278, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
458 pp., 12x10 cm, 382 colour plates, 64 halftones

Leonardo's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. From the moment that the prior at the monastery complained...

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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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History of Art

Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

Rowland Ingrid D.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573282, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2000
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 81 halftones

A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors. The essays in this catalog explore the influence of...

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History of Art

Fragmented Devotion Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne

Netzer Nancy, Reinburg Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781892850010, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2000
150 pp., 27.6x20.1 cm, 15 colour plates, 80 black&white photographs

Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works, usually displayed by historical period, geographic location, artistic medium, or iconographic theme".Fragmented Devotion" is the first exhibition to explore the meanings these fragments have i...

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