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Afterall Spring/Summer 2018, Issue 45

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

ISBN: PB: 9780226578163, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

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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Other Transatlantic Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Dziewanska Marta, Roelstraete Dieter, Winograd Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9788364177422, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2018
250 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 50 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! "The Other Transatlantic" is attuned to the brief but historically significant moment in the postwar period between 1950 and 1970 when the trajectories of the Eastern European art scenes on the one hand, and their Latin Amer...

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Aspects Fred Sandback's Sculpture

Vazquez Edward A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226407906, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 30 colour plates, 46 halftones

Stretching lengths of yarn across interior spaces, American artist Fred Sandback (1943-2003) created expansive works that underscore the physical presence of the viewer. This book, the first major study of Sandback, explores the full range of his art...

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Like Andy Warhol

Flatley Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226505572, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates, 65 halftones

Scholarly considerations of Andy Warhol abound, including very fine catalogues raisonne, notable biographies, and essays in various exhibition catalogues and anthologies. But nowhere is there an in-depth scholarly examination of Warhol's oeuvre as a...

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Power of Material / Politics of Materiality

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones

Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...

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Present of the Future

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349861, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
230 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 81 colour plates, 16 halftones

As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seem...

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Warhol's Working Class Pop Art and Egalitarianism

Grudin Anthony E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347776, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 51 halftones

This book explores Andy Warhol's creative engagement with social class. During the 1960s, as neoliberalism perpetuated the idea that fixed classes were a mirage and status an individual achievement, Warhol's work appropriated images, techniques, and...

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Towards an Aesthetics of Production

Egenhofer Sebastion

ISBN: PB: 9783037348857, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
208 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles D...

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Afterall Spring/Summer 2017, Issue 43

Vilalta Helena, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381812, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

Issue 43 of "Afterall" reflects on artistic practices that challenge the legacies of colonialism. Looking at the work of Chimurenga, Lubaina Himid, and Duane Linklater, among others, contributions ask how artists can create self-initiated structures...

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Isa Genzken Sculpture as World Receiver

Lee Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9780226409979, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 68 colour plates, 12 halftones

The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photogr...

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