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Death of Socrates
ISBN: HB: 9783037345443, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2015
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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£10,99
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Ghost of Karl Marx
ISBN: PB: 9783037345450, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2015
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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£10,99
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Art and Contemporaneity
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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£22,50
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Neighborhood Technologies Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks
ISBN: PB: 9783037345238, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
"Neighborhood Technologies" expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines. Up...
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£34,00
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Disabled Theater
ISBN: PB: 9783037345245, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
288 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm, 30 halftones
Celebrated as an outstanding conceptual dance piece on the one hand and harshly criticized for being a contemporary freak show on the other, "Disabled Theater" by Jerome Bel and Theater Hora polarizes the public. In either case, the production raises...
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£22,50
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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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£26,50
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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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£37,50
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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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