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Arts Club of Chicago at 100 Art and Culture, 1916-2016

Mileaf Janine, Rossen Susan F.

ISBN: HB: 9781891925467, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Founded in 1916 in the wake of the scandalous Armory Show, the Arts Club of Chicago aimed to present the city with new images, sounds, and ideas. Conceived as an exhibition and social space that would cultivate sophisticated conversations around a...

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Arts of Wonder Enchanting Secularity: Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy

Kosky Jeffrey L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226411804, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 15 halftones

"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by 'the disenchantment of the world'". Max Weber's statement remains a dominant interpretation of the modern condition: the increasing capabilities of...

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Before Pictures

Crimp Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9780226423456, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 151 colour plates

Douglas Crimp is the rare art critic whose work profoundly influenced a generation of artists. He is best known for his work with the "Pictures Generation" – the very name of which Crimp coined to define the work of artists like Robert Longo and Cind...

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Music

Design

Art of the Blues A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age

Dahl Bill

ISBN: HB: 9780226396699, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 350 colour plates

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse ele...

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Beauty of a Social Problem Photography, Autonomy, Economy

Benn Michaels Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226421186, ISBN: HB: 9780226210261, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
240 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings

Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In "The Beauty of a Social Problem", Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty thro...

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Dwan Gallery Los Angeles to New York, 1959-1971

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226425108, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 325 colour plates, 90 halftones

Copublished with the National Gallery of Art in celebration of Virginia Dwan's gift to the Gallery of her extraordinary personal collection, "Dwan Gallery" explores her remarkable career. Dwan is one of the most influential figures in the history of...

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Colouring Books for Adults

Nature's Portraits A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings

Macnamara Peggy

ISBN: PB: 9780226431550, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 24.8x21 cm, 60 halftones

When it comes to color, nothing can surpass the vast palette found in nature, from a bright green leaf in a sun-dappled forest to the rich red feathers of a cardinal and the muted greens, ambers, and browns that make up the shell of a tortoise. Wildl...

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Monster Roster Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago

Corbett John, Dempsey Jim, Moss Jessica, Born Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573480, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour plates, 35 halftones

Accompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Go...

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In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum

Bunzl Matti

ISBN: PB: 9780226418124, ISBN: HB: 9780226173818, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at...

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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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