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History of Art

Pensive Image Art as a Form of Thinking

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: HB: 9780226717951, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 26 halftones

While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are considered to raise ontological issues while landscapes...

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Contemporary Art

Escape From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions

Schutter David

ISBN: HB: 9780226461199, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates, 19 halftones

Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is set to a different direction – a series of abstract draw...

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Contemporary Art

Years Now

Umolu Yesomi

ISBN: PB: 9780578643441, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2020
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 30 halftones

The 2020 exhibition Harold Mendez: The years now presented a suite of existing and newly commissioned works – including photography, sculpture and sound – by visual artist Harold Mendez at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Mendez's practi...

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History of Art

Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment

Etienne Noemie, Brizon Claire, Lee Chonja, Wismer Etienne

ISBN: PB: 9783035802276, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 colour plates

During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain...

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History of Art

Myself and My Aims Writings on Art and Criticism

Schwitters Kurt

ISBN: HB: 9780226129396, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 83 halftones

Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance for artists working today. His celebrated Merz pictures – colla...

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History of Art

Maine's Lithographic Landscapes Town and City Views, 1830-1870

Shettleworth Earle G.

ISBN: HB: 9781684580255, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2020
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates

During the nineteenth century, Americans celebrated their towns and cities through printed landscapes. In Maine, lithographs were commissioned from such leading artists as Fitz Henry Lane and talented, lesser known local artists, such as Esteria Butl...

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Contemporary Art

minor cosmopolitan Thinking art, politics, and the universe together otherwise

Xiang Zairong

ISBN: PB: 9783035803044, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In the wake of rapid globalization, many enthusiastically declared cosmopolitanism to be no longer just a philosophical ideal, but a real, existing fact. Across the world, they argued, people were increasingly considering themselves global citizens....

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Contemporary Art

Projectionists Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035802894, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 20 halftones

Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-...

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Contemporary Art

Still Life Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum

Dominguez Rubio Fernando

ISBN: PB: 9780226714080, ISBN: HB: 9780226713922, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 4 line drawings

How do you keep the cracks in "Starry Night" from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal – or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that...

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Contemporary Art

Tale of Today Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi

Sumah Kekeli

ISBN: PB: 9780578657356, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

The second exhibition in the Driehaus Museum's initiative to bring contemporary art into the Gilded Age era Nickerson Mansion focuses on two Chicago-based artists: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi, whose works engage our expectations of the 1883 buildin...

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