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Futurist Moment Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface
ISBN: PB: 9780226657387, University of Chicago Press, December 2003
336 pp., 23.5x15.8 cm
Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating consider...
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£24,00
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American Orthodox Dreamer Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston's Maimonides School
ISBN: HB: 9781584653387, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2003
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, born in 1903 and scion of a preeminent Lithuanian Orthodox family, was one of the most towering intellectual figures of American Orthodoxy in the twentieth century. After receiving rabbinic ordination and completing his...
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£28,00
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Justice in the Balkans Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal
ISBN: HB: 9780226312286, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
304 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 7 illus.
Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U. N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 empl...
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What Happened to Art Criticism?
ISBN: PB: 9780972819633, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2003
87 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Art criticism was once passionate, polemical, and judgmental; now critics are more often interested in ambiguity, neutrality, and nuanced description. And while art criticism is ubiquitous in newspapers, magazines, and exhibition brochures, it is als...
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£10,00
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Catastrophe and Meaning The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226676111, ISBN: HB: 9780226676104, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
How should we understand the relation of the Holocaust to the broader historical processes of the century just ended? How do we explain the bearing of the Holocaust on problems of representation, memory, memorialization, and historical practice? Thes...
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£58,00
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Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922
ISBN: PB: 9780226644240, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods – the Back of the Yards and South Chicago – and the sto...
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£22,50
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Aleut Art Unangam Aguqaadangin
ISBN: HB: 9781578642144, University of Chicago Press, September 2003
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 180 colour plates
Now in a second edition, "Aleut Ar" is a landmark work that provides a comprehensive picture of the Unangas, or Aleut people, and the place of art in their lives, both past and present. Full of extraordinary color plates representing collections f...
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£40,00
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Art History after Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780226041858, ISBN: HB: 9780226041841, University of Chicago Press, August 2003
236 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones
"Art history after modernism" does not only mean that art looks different today; it also means that our discourse on art has taken a different direction, if it is safe to say it has taken a direction at all. So begins Hans Belting's brilliant, icon...
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£23,50
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£76,00
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Sperm Whales Social Evolution in the Ocean
ISBN: PB: 9780226895185, ISBN: HB: 9780226895178, University of Chicago Press, August 2003
456 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 41 tables, 60 halftones, 84 line illus.
Famed in story as "the great leviathans", sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males can reach a length of sixty-two feet and can weigh upwards of fifty ton...
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£28,50
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£95,00
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Unpackaging Art of the 1980s
ISBN: HB: 9780226651453, University of Chicago Press, June 2003
239 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 26 colour plates, 11 halftones
American art of the 1980s is as misunderstood as it is notorious. Critics of the time feared that market hype and self-promotion threatened the integrity of art. They lashed out at contemporary art, questioning the validity of particular media and me...
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£47,50
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