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Sadie Benning Shared Eye
ISBN: PB: 9780941548700, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, March 2019
184 pp., 25.4x19.6 cm, 72 colour plates
This richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning's exhibition "Shared Eye", presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in "Shared Eye" defy easy categorization: they inc...
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£27,00
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Pick Up the Pieces Excursions in Seventies Music
ISBN: HB: 9780226604732, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest – from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered...
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£20,00
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Monster Roster Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780935573480, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour plates, 35 halftones
Accompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Go...
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£34,00
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Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation
ISBN: PB: 9780226353807, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
112 pp., 15.8x10.7 cm
Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar extrapolations – all these sounds seem like so much noodling o...
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£11,50
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Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths
ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.
Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...
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£19,00
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