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Architecture

History of Art

On Loos, Ornament and Crime Columns of Smoke: Volume II

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Thomson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9788493923150, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, September 2015
112 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 56 halftones

In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special foc...

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Philosophy

History of Art

After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...

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Contemporary Art

After Year Zero Geographies of Collaboration

Busch Annett, Franke Anselm

ISBN: PB: 9788364177255, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, September 2015
220 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates, 50 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Published in conjunction with an exhibition that has traveled to the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw from Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt, this volume takes as its starting point the realignment of global ties after 1945...

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Contemporary Art

Media Studies

Revisions Zen for Film

Holling Hanna B.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792049, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, September 2015
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 22 halftones

How do works of art endure over time in the face of aging materials and changing interpretations of their meaning? How do decay, technological obsolescence, and the blending of old and new media affect what an artwork is and can become? And how can c...

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History of Art

Paul Klee The Visible and the Legible

Bourneuf Annie

ISBN: HB: 9780226091181, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
256 pp., 22.8x17.7 cm, 32 colour plates, 35 halftones

The fact that Paul Klee (1879-1940) consistently intertwined the visual and the verbal in his art has long fascinated commentators from Walter Benjamin to Michel Foucault. However, the questions it prompts have never been satisfactorily answered – un...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Lived Practice

Jacob Mary Jane, Zeller Kate

ISBN: PB: 9780982879887, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"A Lived Practice" examines the reciprocal relationship of art and life: Artist-practitioners are shaped by their experiences, and they in turn create and enhance the experience of others. Based on a symposium held at the School of the Art Institute...

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History of Art

Institutions and Imaginaries

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780982879863, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Socially engaged art, though its transformative practice, shapes the institutions that surround it. And in a city famous for both its physical and political structures, few creative communities are as deeply intertwined with a city's framework than t...

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Contemporary Art

Art and Contemporaneity

Ruda Frank, Voelker Jan

ISBN: PB: 9783037342091, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2015
176 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

Art is often said to be timeless, but specific works of art always take place within time and maintain a dynamic balance between their conditions of production and reception. Art and Contemporaneity features contributions from leading scholars, inclu...

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Contemporary Art

Daguerreotypes Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects

Saltzman Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9780226242033, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 halftones

In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats hav...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Summer 2015, Issue 39

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

ISBN: PB: 9781846381577, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

"Afterall", a journal of contemporary art, provides a forum for analysis of art's context and seeks to inspire artists to see art as an agency for change. Each issue contains in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with ess...

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