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History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2016, Issue 42

Vilalta Helena, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381706, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

Issue 42 of "Afterall" addresses the crisis of representation in contemporary art through the work of Pierre Huyghe and Tania Bruguera, reflecting on how they each intervene into biological and political systems. We also put a spotlight on the contri...

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Philosophy

Epidemic Subjects – Radical Ontology

von Samsonow Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9783037345962, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
192 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm, 12 halftones

Modern philosophy continues to grapple with the idea of subjectivity – and, as the concept of subjectivity has consequently been repeatedly refined and redefined, the struggle has spread to the ways we conceive of sovereignty, collectivity, nationali...

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Fiction

Summer of Caprice

Vancura Vladislav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632896, ISBN: HB: 9788024611952, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
204 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 90 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Summer of Caprice", a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the co...

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Contemporary Art

Europe

Art of the Multitude Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience

Vickery Jonathen P., Manus Mechtild

ISBN: PB: 9783593505640, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
200 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm, 50 colour plates

Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights".The Art of the Multitude" explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemorat...

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Biography & Memoires

Wealth Woman Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602232778, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2016
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps

With the first headlines screaming "Gold! Gold! Gold!" in 1896, the Klondike Gold Rush was on – and it almost instantly became the stuff of legend. One of the key figures in the early discoveries that set off the gold rush was the Tagish wife of pros...

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Poetry

Ragdoll for my Heart

Vaidya Anuradha, Nargundkar Shruti

ISBN: PB: 9789383074099, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, December 2015
142 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

First published in 1966 by award-winning Marathi writer Anuradha Vaidya, "A Ragdoll for My Heart" is a unique free verse novella now making its English debut. The lyrical work, translated by Shruti Nargundkar, tells an age-old story: that of a woman'...

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Technology & Engineering

Challenger Launch Decision Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA

Vaughan Diane

ISBN: PB: 9780226346823, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
620 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 line drawings, 2 tables

When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the tragedy....

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Nature

City Creatures Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness

Van Horn Gavin, Aftandilian Dave

ISBN: HB: 9780226192895, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 102 colour plates, 16 halftones

We usually think of cities as the domain of humans – but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban landscape home. Chicago residents knowingly move among familiar creatures like squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, but might be surprised t...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2014, Issue 37

Vilalta Helena, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Cahill Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9781846381553, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...

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Poetry

Calle Florista

Voisine Connie

ISBN: PB: 9780226295329, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
88 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

This World and That One Sometimes you defy it, I am not that, watching a stranger cry like a dog when she thinks she's alone at the kitchen window, hands forgotten under the running tap. The curtains blow out, flap the other side of the sill. In you...

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