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Lenore Tawney Mirror of the Universe

Patterson Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780226664835, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
304 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 200 colour plates

Recent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and early twentie...

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Let me consider it from here

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548762, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2019
104 pp., 21.5x17.7 cm, 52 colour plates

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, "Let me consider it from here" features color reproductions of artworks by Saul Fletcher, Brook Hsu, and Tetsumi Kudo and transcriptions of the audio works of Constance DeJong, alongside newly co...

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Please RSVP Questions on Collaborative Aesthetics, Trans-Subjectivity, and the Politics of Love

Durham April

ISBN: PB: 9781512603682, ISBN: HB: 9781512603453, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It's no secret that working with others, rather than alone, on a creative project can often yield the most unexpected results, a new and surprising sum greater than the whole of its parts. "Please RSVP" presents a bold new theory of just how powerful...

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Alejandro Cesarco Song

Cesarco Alejandro

ISBN: HB: 9780941548748, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2019
112 pp., 26.6x19 cm, 28 colour plates

"Alejandro Cesarco: Song", published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Renaissance Society, brings together both new commissions and existing works. In the exhibition, Cesarco creates rhythm by incorporating silences and withh...

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Allure of Matter Material Art from China

Hung Wu, Cacchione Orianna, Mehring Christine, Smith Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9780935573602, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
264 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 257 colour plates

From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works–in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco–form a major trend in Chinese art. "The Allure of Matter" offers the first serious consideration of...

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Beverly Fresh Really Somethin Else

Rodrigues Widholm Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780996235020, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, July 2019
268 pp., 17.7x24.1 cm, 150 colour plates

An experimental "expanded catalog" chronicling the recent work and 2018 solo exhibition of artist Beverly Fresh, "Really Somethin Else" not only documents and contextualizes the work in the exhibition, but also includes research, sketches, production...

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Ribbon of Darkness Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences

Stafford Barbara Maria

ISBN: PB: 9780226630519, ISBN: HB: 9780226630489, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones

Over the course of her career, Barbara Stafford has established herself the preeminent scholar of the intersections of the arts and sciences, articulating new theories and methods for understanding the sublime, the mysterious, the inscrutable. Omnivo...

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Performing Arts

Film's Ghosts Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035801477, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2019
264 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Tokyo during the 1960s was in a state of uproar, full of protests, riots, and insurrection. Tatsumi Hijikata – the initiator of the "Butoh" performance art and the seminal figure in Japan's experimental arts culture of the 1960s – created his most fa...

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History of Art

Afterall Spring/Summer 2019, Issue 47

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

ISBN: PB: 9781846382024, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
175 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. I...

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Mathias Poledna Substance

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548670, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, April 2019
132 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 93 colour plates

In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this pr...

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