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Cezanne and the End of Impressionism A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226753065, University of Chicago Press, April 1986
336 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 57 halftones
Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cezanne's painting. He shows how Cezanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it...
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£37,00
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How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226310398, University of Chicago Press, April 1985
288 pp., 23x15.2 cm
Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. New York, 1935-1941: The De-Marxization of the Intelligentsia 2. The Second World War and the Attempt to Establish an Independent American Art 3. The Creation of an American Avant-Garde, 1945-1947 4. Su...
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£24,00
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Art of Describing Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226015132, University of Chicago Press, April 1984
302 pp., 25.6x17.9 cm, 4 pages of colour plates, 182 halftones
Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Constantijn Huygens and The New World 2".Ut pictura, ita visio": Kepler's Model of the Eye and the Nature of Picturing in the North 3".With a Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye": The Craft of Rep...
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£31,00
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Art on the Edge Creators and Situations
ISBN: PB: 9780226726748, University of Chicago Press, June 1983
318 pp., 20.4x13.5 cm, 75 halftones
Contents: List of Illustrations Foreword Creators 1. Duchamp: Private and Public 2. Miro I. Fertile Fields II. Avant-Garde Masterpieces 3. Mondrian: Meaning in Abstract Art I 4. Newman: Meaning in Abstract Art II 5. Olitski, Kelly, Hamilton...
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£24,00
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De-Definition of Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226726731, University of Chicago Press, June 1983
256 pp., 20.1x13.3 cm, 53 halftones
Contents: On the De-definition of Art Part One: Art and Words 1. Redmen to Earthworks 2. De-aestheticization 3. Educating Artists 4. Surrealism in the Streets 5. Art and Words Part Two: Artists 6. Pro-Art Dada – Jean Arp 7. Primitive a la Mode – J...
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£23,00
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Meaning in the Visual Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226645513, University of Chicago Press, March 1983
384 pp., 22.9x14.7 cm, 64 pages of illus.
Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion...
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£31,00
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Learning to Look A Handbook for the Visual Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226791548, University of Chicago Press, June 1981
186 pp., 23.5x14.9 cm, 2 colour plates, 42 halftones
Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look". This handy guide...
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£11,50
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Fine Arts in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226791517, University of Chicago Press, February 1981
280 pp., 21.5x18.7 cm, 250 halftones
Contents: Series Editor's Preface Author's Preface Introduction 1670-1776 Beginnings 1776-1860 Art and the New Republic The Art of Recording America Europe and the Great Tradition The Identification of Art with America The Persistence of...
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£33,00
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Language of Images
ISBN: PB: 9780226532158, University of Chicago Press, November 1980
314 pp., 23x15 cm, 79 halftones
Introduction Howard Nemerov: On Poetry and Painting, With a Thought of Music Giulio Carlo Argan: Ideology and Iconology Joshua C. Taylor: Two Visual Excursions Elizabeth Abel: Redefining the Sister Arts: Baudelaire's Response to the Art of Delacroix...
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Guide to Mexican Art From Its Beginnings to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780226244211, University of Chicago Press, August 1969
316 pp., 20.2x11.9 cm
"A Guide to Mexican Art", a survey of more than twenty centuries of art, has a double purpose. It provides an ample version of one of the great national arts by a leading art historian, and it serves simultaneously as a practical guide to the art's o...
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£28,50
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