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Object – Event – Performance Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s
ISBN: HB: 9781941792223, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, July 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms – such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked components – that pose...
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£36,00
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What Is Research?
ISBN: PB: 9781941792247, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Research underlies nearly every aspect of our culture, with expansive investment poured into it and its significance acknowledged by governments, industries, and academic institutions around the world. Yet the idea, practice, and social life of resea...
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£20,00
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Museum in the Cultural Sciences Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9781941792162, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2021
394 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In early twentieth-century Berlin, Wilhelm von Bode sparked a controversy with his sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Debates about the role and structure of museums played out in 1907 and 1910 with two striking series of...
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£52,00
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Cultural Histories of the Material World
ISBN: PB: 9781941792186, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, November 2019
295 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Bringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, "Cultural Histories of the Material World" provides a substantial collection of works that explore materiality and material culture from a historical perspecti...
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£19,00
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Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity
ISBN: PB: 9781941792124, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2018
200 pp., 22x17.7 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones, 45 line drawings
The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity".The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity" examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this t...
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£22,50
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Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles
ISBN: PB: 9781941792131, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2018
220 pp., 22x17.7 cm, 100 colour plates
Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were pioneers in using visual anthropological techniques to study the aesthetics of bodily motion in Bali. What is less well known is that they also collected textiles, paintings, puppets, and carving...
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£22,50
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Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge
ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables
Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...
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£26,50
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Ex Voto Votive Giving Across Cultures
ISBN: HB: 9781941792056, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2017
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 colour plates
Derived from Latin ex voto suscepto "in pursuance of a vow", an ex voto embodies the hopes, dreams, and anxieties of the person who deposits it. Almost anything, regardless of size, weight, form, or original function, can become a votive object. Ulti...
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£49,00
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In Space We Read Time On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
ISBN: HB: 9781941792087, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2017
550 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones
History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl Schlogel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just as important as the when. Schlogel relishes space th...
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£34,00
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Design by the Book Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu
ISBN: PB: 9781941792100, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, January 2017
128 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 80 halftones
Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts and transmitted illustrations. Among the most importa...
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£22,50
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