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History of Art

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: HB: 9788024602356, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2001
431 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The English version of the major book from Petr Wittlich, which charts the crisis and development of Czech monumental sculpture at the turn of the 19th/20th century and explores the new de...

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Contemporary Art

Space/Sight/Self

Letinsky Laura, Bloom Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573220, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 1999
76 pp., 22.3x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 24 halftones

The exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues – identity, vision, and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalog do...

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Contemporary Art

Struggle for Utopia Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946

Margolin Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780226505169, University of Chicago Press, June 1998
276 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 107 halftones

Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy whose careers cov...

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History of Art

Still More Distant Journeys The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall

D'Alessandro Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573190, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 1998
284 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 137 colour plates, 168 halftones

The first major retrospective of the work of Lasar Segall, this catalog explores the artist's changing cultural and artistic identities as demonstrated in over 224. Segall was an influential artist who infused Brazilian modernism with the color, ps...

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Jewish Studies

State of Israel, Diaspora, and Jewish Continuity Essays on the "Ever-Dying People"

Rawidowicz Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780874518467, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 1998
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This readable, insightful, and thought-provoking collection of essays, presents an original and innovative ideology that stirringly affirms the unity of the Jewish people. Rawidowicz's rich themes include the relationship between the State of Israel...

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Philosophy

Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason Volume One: Toward an Existentialist Theory of History

Flynn Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226254685, ISBN: HB: 9780226254678, University of Chicago Press, September 1997
356 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent th...

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History of Art

Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771878, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
426 pp., 23.4x19.8 cm, 300 halftones

Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg...

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Anthropology

Story of Lynx

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226474724, ISBN: HB: 9780226474717, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
294 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 3 maps, 20 tables

"In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time, a young girl who lived in the same cabin would grab the...

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Philosophy

Short Commentary on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Ewing A. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226227788, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
286 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This concise volume is at once an excellent introduction to Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and an original analysis of Kant's ideas. Intended to be read in conjunction with Kant's text, Ewing's commentary systematically examines the "Critique" chap...

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Linguistics

Simple and Direct A Rhetoric for Writers (Revised Edition)

Barzun Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226038681, University of Chicago Press, June 1994
314 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

In "Simple and Direct", Jacques Barzun, celebrated author and educator, distills from a lifetime of writing and teaching his thoughts about the craft of writing. In chapters on diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision, Barzun describ...

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