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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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History of Art
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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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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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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Contemporary Art
Art and Contemporaneity
Ruda Frank, Voelker Jan
ISBN: PB: 9783037342091, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2015
176 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm
Art is often said to be timeless, but specific works of art always take place within time and maintain a dynamic balance between their conditions of production and reception. Art and Contemporaneity features contributions from leading scholars, inclu...
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Contemporary Art
El Hadji Sy Painting, Performance, Politics
Deliss Clementine, Mutumba Yvette
ISBN: PB: 9783037348413, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2015
320 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 500 colour plates, 100 halftones
El Hadji Sy is one of the most significant figures in African contemporary art. Since the late 1970s, the Senegalese artist and curator has helped shape the country's thriving art scene through his innovative painting and performance art. But El Sy i...
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