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Culture Studies

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution The Art of the Cut

Amann Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226187259, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel, it's no secret that style has political meaning. And there was no time in history when the politics of fashion was more fraug...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Support Networks

Satinsky Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...

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Culture Studies

Packaged Pleasures How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire

Cross Gary S., Proctor Robert N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226121277, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 5 line drawings, 1 table

From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other cons...

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Culture Studies

Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture

Rosenthal Caroline, Schafer Stefanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593501017, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
230 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates

In North America, where the sociocultural history and national mythologies of the United States and Canada are especially fertile ground for the invention of identities both fake and "real" impostor narratives of all kinds abound. From ethnic imperso...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

En Guerre French Illustrators and World War I

Harris Neil, Edelstein Teri J.

ISBN: PB: 9780943056425, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
144 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 140 colour plates

With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, En Guerre offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period. Publis...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Czech Action Art Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain

Morganova Pavlina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623177, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2014
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Czech action art – a medium similar to performance art that does not require an audience – emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This movement has received little c...

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Music

Culture Studies

Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960

Fry Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings

The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...

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Music

Philosophy

Music between Us Is Music a Universal Language?

Higgins Kathleen Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226142852, ISBN: HB: 9780226333281, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
296 pp., 23x15 cm

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In "The Music between Us", philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role,...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Art & Energy How Culture Changes

Lord Barry

ISBN: PB: 9781933253916, ISBN: HB: 9781933253930, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, April 2014
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 75 colour plates

In "Art & Energy", Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on earth for our survival. From our ancient mastery of fire through our exploitation of coal, oil, and gas, to the development of today's renewable...

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Ancient World

Culture Studies

Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

Kaster Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...

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