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Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9783035802276, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 colour plates
During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain...
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Aesthetic Theory
ISBN: PB: 9783035801460, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
240 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 15 colour plates, 20 halftones
Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic the...
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Power of Material / Politics of Materiality
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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Present of the Future
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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Towards an Aesthetics of Production
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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£22,50
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Visualizing Portuguese Power The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)
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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£56,50
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Vision in Motion Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
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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Cube and the Face Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
ISBN: PB: 9783037345207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones
Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With "The Cube and the Face", renowned French...
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Public in the Picture Involving the Beholder in Antique, Islamic, Byzantine and Western Medieval and Renaissance Art
ISBN: HB: 9783037344781, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 75 halftones
The act of including bystanders within the scene of an artwork has marked an important shift in the ways artists addressed the beholder, as well as a significant transformation of the relationship between images and their viewership. In such works, t...
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Multiples in Pre-Modern Art
ISBN: HB: 9783037343746, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones
In the art world, replicas are typically thought to be of low value. However skillfully created, they remain in the eyes of many mere copies, pointing toward an original of greater significance. In recent years, however, replicas and multiples have c...
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