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Archaeology & Paleontology

Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan

Tsiang Katherine R.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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Contemporary Art

Ecology

Ecologies Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573329, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 2001
96 pp., 22.8x16.4 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones

Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavor that has required new strategies in art-making. To explore recent American manifestations of these interests, the David and Alfred Smart Museum commissio...

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Contemporary Art

Exhibiting Experimental Art in China

Hung Wu

ISBN: PB: 9780935573336, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2000
224 pp., 28.1x18.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 29 halftones

In his new book, Wu Hung raises timely questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Here, as in the Smart Museum's exhibition "Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China", Wu uses the government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me (Beiji...

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