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Ruling Culture Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780226757032, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 1 map
Through much of its history, Italy was Europe's heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and sometimes plundered countless artworks and antiquities. This loss of artifacts looted by other nations once...
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Speaking Stone Stories Cemeteries Tell
ISBN: PB: 9781947602304, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, March 2021
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 86 halftones
The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, fo...
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Rem Koolhaas/OMA The Construction of Merveilles
ISBN: PB: 9782889153121, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic marvels amid the skylines of America, Europe, and Asia, Rem Koolhaas, along with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is justly considered as one of the leaders of contemporary archit...
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Forgotten Revolution The 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils
ISBN: PB: 9781551647159, ISBN: HB: 9781551647173, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After the ravages of World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest was engulfed by revolution and marauding foreign armies in 1919. Factory workers, disillusioned ex-soldiers, landless peasants, artists, and intellectuals bega...
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Pensive Image Art as a Form of Thinking
ISBN: HB: 9780226717951, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 26 halftones
While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are considered to raise ontological issues while landscapes...
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Vida y muerte de San Cristobal by Juan de Benavides
ISBN: PB: 9780866986298, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, December 2020
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
As the patron of travelers, Saint Christopher inspired one of the most popular cults in the medieval era, which spread across Europe and especially the Iberian Peninsula. Artistic renderings of the saint were found near the doors of most Spanish Goth...
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£48,00
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Wanderer
ISBN: PB: 9781734618112, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2020
262 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 116 halftones
In The Wanderer, Carole J. Garrison fulfills her bucket list by meeting with the people who fascinate her and the places that lead her to them. Through her journeys, she explores the unexpected human connections that transform the experience of trave...
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Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
ISBN: PB: 9780226758329, ISBN: HB: 9780226341330, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 59 halftones
At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business. Newspapers soon saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen dailies apiece....
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Cartesian Poetics The Art of Thinking
ISBN: PB: 9780226723020, ISBN: HB: 9780226722979, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of Rene Descartes and finds them in the philosopher's implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes's thought was...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City
ISBN: PB: 9781551647678, ISBN: HB: 9781551647692, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpr...
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