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Ai Weiwei Bare Life
ISBN: HB: 9780936316468, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, December 2019
192 pp., 22.8x26.6 cm, 90 colour plates
Over the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist, and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cult...
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£30,00
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Arthur Osver
ISBN: HB: 9780936316444, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, November 2018
224 pp., 29.7x24.6 cm, 120 colour plates
The first monograph on the work of the American painter Arthur Osver (1912-2006), this publication explores Osver's entire oeuvre, from early urban realism to decades of engagement with abstraction. His long and productive career took him from Chicag...
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Spectacle and Leisure in Paris Degas to Mucha
ISBN: PB: 9780936316437, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, July 2017
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 62 colour illus.
Through the lens of seven scholars, this book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the vibrant culture of public spectacle in late nineteenth-century Paris. Posters and prints circulated across the city, as...
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Spotlights Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780936316420, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2017
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 75 colour plates
In 2015, the "U. S. News & World Report" raved that the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum "houses one of the most distinguished university collections in the country".Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum" commemorates the museum's...
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To See Without Being Seen Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9780936316413, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, April 2016
96 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 86 colour plates
We are in the dawn of the drone age, a turning point in history when the United States and other countries are increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor behavior, collect data, conduct surveillance, and wage wars. As the ubiquitous visio...
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£19,00
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Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break III
ISBN: PB: 9780936316376, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2014
72 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 25 colour plates, 10 halftones
"Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III" is the third volume in a series examining the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart. Known for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue collar workers of the twenty-fi...
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In the Aftermath of Trauma Contemporary Video Installations
ISBN: PB: 9780936316383, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2014
112 pp., 23.9x16.5 cm, 58 colour plates
The history of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is one that is scarred by incomprehensibly violent events with far-reaching effects. It is an era of world wars, totalitarian mass terror, social and ethnic cleansing, revolutions, civil w...
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Cosima von Bonin Character Appropriation
ISBN: PB: 9780936316338, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2012
48 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 27 colour illus.
Spanning a decade of its subject's multifaceted career, "Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation" features the Kenya-born, Germany-based artist's signature textile paintings, architectural sculptures, and absurdly outsized stuffed animals. In addit...
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£7,50
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Precarious Worlds Contemporary Art from Germany
ISBN: HB: 9780936316345, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2012
72 pp., 33x24 cm, 20 colour illus.
Taking as its impetus a group of important new acquisitions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, "Precarious Worlds" explores thematic connections between some of the most influential artists working in Germany today. Works by Franz Ackermann, Cosi...
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Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break II
ISBN: PB: 9780936316314, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2011
96 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 125 halftones
This book evolved from an archive of images collected by artist Sharon Lockhart while researching her project "Lunch Break" – a series of films and photographs she produced from a long-term collaboration with the workers of Bath Iron Works in Maine,...
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