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Photography

After the Crisis Contemporary States of Photography

Grau Donatien, Wiesner Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9783035802023, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
160 pp., 18.6x11.8 cm, 20 halftones

"After the Crisis" offers a platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory...

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Contemporary Art

Performing Arts

Film's Ghosts Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035801477, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2019
264 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Tokyo during the 1960s was in a state of uproar, full of protests, riots, and insurrection. Tatsumi Hijikata – the initiator of the "Butoh" performance art and the seminal figure in Japan's experimental arts culture of the 1960s – created his most fa...

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Contemporary Art

Neolithic Childhood Art in a False Present, c. 1930

Holert Tom

ISBN: HB: 9783035801064, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2018
400 pp., 26.7x17.1 cm, 400 colour plates

Resonating at the heart of "Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930" is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Power of Material / Politics of Materiality

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones

Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Present of the Future

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349861, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
230 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 81 colour plates, 16 halftones

As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seem...

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Contemporary Art

Towards an Aesthetics of Production

Egenhofer Sebastion

ISBN: PB: 9783037348857, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
208 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles D...

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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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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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History of Art

Vision in Motion Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time

Zimmermann Michael F.

ISBN: HB: 9783037345221, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
528 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones

Vision is not just a simple recognition of what passes through our field of sight, the reflection and observation of light and shape. Even before Freud posited dreams as a way of "seeing" even as we sleep, the writings of philosophers, artists, and s...

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Contemporary Art

Concave Thoughts 256 Digital Drawings

Netzhammer Yves

ISBN: PB: 9783037345344, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
512 pp., 20.3x14 cm, Illustrated in halftones throughout

The digital drawings of Yves Netzhammer invite viewers into a fascinating world of figures that appear both human and animal, while simultaneously blurring the distinction between object and living thing. By turns nightmarish or playful and cartoon-l...

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