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El Hadji Sy Painting, Performance, Politics
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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£37,50
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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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£49,00
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Past's Threshold Essays on Photography
ISBN: PB: 9783037346914, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 40 halftones
Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work of many of the...
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£15,00
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Kracauer. Photographic Archive
ISBN: HB: 9783037346716, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 30 colour plates, 280 halftones
Siegfried Kracauer was a leading figure on the Weimar arts scene and one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work o...
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£45,00
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Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection
ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...
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£26,50
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Foreign Exchange (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)
ISBN: PB: 9783037346686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2014
320 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones
Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research acro...
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£28,00
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