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Allure of Matter Materiality Across Chinese Art

Cacchione Orianna, Lin Wei-Cheng

ISBN: PB: 9780935573640, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 110 colour plates

Building on the Art and Materiality Symposium held on the occasion of the Smart Museum's exhibition The Allure of Matter, this publication considers the important but often overlooked role materials have played in the history of Chinese art and inclu...

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Endless

Reimer Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780945323273, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, January 2021
124 pp., 22x14.5 cm, 51 colour plates, 26 halftones

For over fifteen years, Karen Reimer has dedicated her artistic life to reconsidering modernist ideals and minimalist embodiment through the intriguing quirks of handmade and everyday objects".Endless", offers over seventy-five gorgeous reproductions...

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Claudia Wieser Generations

Adams Rachel, Carty Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780935573633, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 colour plates

Claudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality – such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee – she considers abstraction...

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Escape From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions

Schutter David

ISBN: HB: 9780226461199, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates, 19 halftones

Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is set to a different direction – a series of abstract draw...

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Years Now

Umolu Yesomi

ISBN: PB: 9780578643441, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2020
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 30 halftones

The 2020 exhibition Harold Mendez: The years now presented a suite of existing and newly commissioned works – including photography, sculpture and sound – by visual artist Harold Mendez at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Mendez's practi...

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minor cosmopolitan Thinking art, politics, and the universe together otherwise

Xiang Zairong

ISBN: PB: 9783035803044, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In the wake of rapid globalization, many enthusiastically declared cosmopolitanism to be no longer just a philosophical ideal, but a real, existing fact. Across the world, they argued, people were increasingly considering themselves global citizens....

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Projectionists Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035802894, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 20 halftones

Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-...

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Still Life Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum

Dominguez Rubio Fernando

ISBN: PB: 9780226714080, ISBN: HB: 9780226713922, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 4 line drawings

How do you keep the cracks in "Starry Night" from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal – or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that...

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Tale of Today Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi

Sumah Kekeli

ISBN: PB: 9780578657356, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

The second exhibition in the Driehaus Museum's initiative to bring contemporary art into the Gilded Age era Nickerson Mansion focuses on two Chicago-based artists: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi, whose works engage our expectations of the 1883 buildin...

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TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) Catalonia in Venice

Azara Pedro

ISBN: PB: 9788494423444, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 halftones

For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between huma...

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