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Contemporary Art

Fluxus Forms Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network

Harren Natilee

ISBN: HB: 9780226354927, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 12 colour plates, 70 halftones

"PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art... Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples", writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world enthr...

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At the Corner of a Dream A Journey of Resistance and Revolution: The Street Art of Bahia Shehab

Shehab Bahia

ISBN: PB: 9781909942394, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, March 2020
96 pp., 24.7x24.1 cm, 86 colour plates

Working with stylized typographic and calligraphic forms, Egyptian-Lebanese street artist Bahia Shehab brings creative presentations of language and culture to public spaces around the world. During the Egyptian revolution of 2011, she began taking t...

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Manifesto of Artistic Research

Mersch Dieter, Henke Silvia, Strassle Thomas, Wiesel Jorg, van der Meulen Nicolaj

ISBN: PB: 9783035802207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
128 pp., 29.2x17.7 cm

Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to ex...

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History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2019, Issue 48

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Rujoiu Anca, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846382116, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Launched in 1999, Afterall is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. Vol...

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Julia Fish bound by spectrum

Rodrigues Widholm Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780996235037, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, January 2020
120 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 30 colour plates

This exhibition catalog, "Julia Fish: bound by spectrum", presents a fully-illustrated survey of the last decade of Fish's paintings and works on paper. It offers new scholarship around Fish's ongoing project that brings together the disciplines of p...

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Merce Cunningham After the Arbitrary

Noland Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9780226541242, ISBN: HB: 9780226541105, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 17 colour plates, 54 halftones

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham's work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with t...

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Mythology of Forms Selected Writings on Art

Einstein Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780226464138, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 78 halftones

The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors...

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Traces of Modernism Art and Politics from the First World War to Totalitarianism

Cioli Monica, Ricciardi Maurizio, Schiera Pierangelo

ISBN: PB: 9783593510309, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
222 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 4 halftones

"Traces of Modernism" surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributor...

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Unthought Environments

Lund Karsten

ISBN: PB: 9780941548755, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2020
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 94 colour plates, 7 halftones

"Unthought Environments" brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hid...

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Value of Critique Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour

Graw Isabelle, Menke Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9783593510101, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"The Value of Critique" casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art – critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor...

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