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History of Art

Art of G. F. Watts

Tromans Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781911300076, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2017
136 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 colour illus.

Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of G. F. Watts, this book provides a lively and engaging introduction to one of the most charismatic figures in the history of British art. Covering all aspects of Watts's career, it places hi...

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Contemporary Art

Anthropology

Creative Alaska A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013

Haakanson Sven, Steffian Amy

ISBN: HB: 9781602232853, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
340 pp., 27.3x27.3 cm, 232 colour plates

Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen,...

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Photography

Photography, Trace, and Trauma

Iversen Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226370163, ISBN: HB: 9780226370026, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 colour plates, 29 halftones

Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer – similar to what happens when a traumatic ev...

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Photography

Documenting the World Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

Mitman Gregg, Wilder Kelley

ISBN: HB: 9780226129112, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 40 halftones

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would b...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 51, 2016

Baetjer Katharine, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226438047, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal" is issued annually and publishes original research on works in the museum's collection. Highlights of Volume 51 include a reassessment of a Degas pastel, an examination of painted Maya vessels from the third to tenth...

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Photography

Spotlights Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316420, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2017
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 75 colour plates

In 2015, the "U. S. News & World Report" raved that the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum "houses one of the most distinguished university collections in the country".Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum" commemorates the museum's...

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History of Art

Visualizing Portuguese Power The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)

Krass Urte

ISBN: HB: 9783037347423, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates, 120 halftones

Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effecti...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Surface Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media

Bruno Giuliana

ISBN: PB: 9780226434636, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 24.7x22.8 cm, 80 colour plates, 6 halftones

What is the place of materiality – the expression or condition of physical substance – in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In "Surface", cultural critic and theori...

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Contemporary Art

Global Work of Art World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience

Jones Caroline A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226291741, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 37 colour plates, 128 halftones

Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists' engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world's fairs...

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Contemporary Art

No New Kind of Duck Would I Know How to Say What I Do?

Verwoert Jan

ISBN: PB: 9783037349465, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 19x13.3 cm, 90 colour plates

What do we learn by making art? What do we discover by discussing our art with other people? These are the questions at the heart of "No New Kind of Duck", which documents an exchange between Jan Verwoert and artists, critics, and other researchers a...

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