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History of Art

Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance

Quinlan-McGrath Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226421667, ISBN: HB: 9780226922843, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light rad...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50, 2015

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226329505, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south...

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History of Art

Live Form Women, Ceramics, and Community

Sorkin Jenni

ISBN: HB: 9780226303116, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 70 halftones

Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those found in other creative mediums".Live Form" shines new light on the relation of ceram...

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Photography

Camera Orientalis Reflections on Photography of the Middle East

Behdad Ali

ISBN: PB: 9780226356402, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 80 halftones

In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and fa...

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Contemporary Art

Essential Paul Laffoley Works from the Boston Visionary Cell

Laffoley Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226315416, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 28x28 cm, 118 colour plates, 15 halftones

Paul Laffoley, who once worked for Frederick Kiesler and Andy Warhol, emerged in recent years as one of the leading visionary artists of our time. Lavishly illustrated, "The Essential Paul Laffoley" documents the evolution of his unique intellectual,...

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Photography

Camera Does the Rest How Polaroid Changed Photography

Buse Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226176383, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 colour plates, 6 halftones

In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in its day. And yet, there's still something magical f...

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Jewish Studies

Style and Seduction Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna

Shapira Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611689211, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identificati...

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History of Art

Deaths of Henri Regnault

Gotlieb Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780226276045, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 48 colour plates, 77 halftones

This is the first book in English on Henri Regnault (1843-71), a forgotten star of the European fin-de-siecle. A brilliant maverick who once seemed to hold the future of French painting in his hands, Regnault enjoyed a meteoric rise that was cut shor...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

On the Animation of the Inorganic Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life

Papapetros Spyros

ISBN: PB: 9780226380193, ISBN: HB: 9780226645681, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
440 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 164 halftones, 10 colour illus.

Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interactin...

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Photography

To See Without Being Seen Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare

Braunert Svea, Malone Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780936316413, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, April 2016
96 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 86 colour plates

We are in the dawn of the drone age, a turning point in history when the United States and other countries are increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor behavior, collect data, conduct surveillance, and wage wars. As the ubiquitous visio...

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