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Theme and Variations The Multiple Sorceries of Felix Buhot
ISBN: PB: 9780935573596, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
60 pp., 15.2x24.1 cm, 60 colour plates
In the late nineteenth century, French printmaker Felix Buhot effected a kind of sorcery on his etching plates, making each impression into a unique work of art simply by varying the inking technique and the inks and papers used. With his evocative,...
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£12,00
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There Was a Whole Collection Made Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman
ISBN: HB: 9780935573565, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2017
240 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 235 colour plates
In 2014, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago received a generous gift from collectors Lester and Betty Guttman: 830 photographs, created by a total of 414 artists, that cover a time period stretching all the way from the early 1800s...
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£30,00
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Tragic Muse Art and Emotion, 1700-1900
ISBN: PB: 9780935573497, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2010
128 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 75 colour illus.
Art is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darker emotions, such as fear, sadness, and grief. And while these themes have an artistic history dating ba...
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£22,50
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Space/Sight/Self
ISBN: PB: 9780935573220, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 1999
76 pp., 22.3x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 24 halftones
The exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues – identity, vision, and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalog do...
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£11,50
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