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TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) Catalonia in Venice

Azara Pedro

ISBN: PB: 9788494423444, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 halftones

For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between huma...

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History of Art

Laurits Tuxen The Court Paintings

Fonss-Lundberg Thyge Christian, Svanholm Lise

ISBN: HB: 9788763546782, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, July 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 247 colour plates, 36 halftones

Laurits Tuxen (1853-1927) was a phenomenally talented artist who, thanks to his skills within both painting and diplomacy, established himself as one of the most important European court painters in the nineteenth century – active, among other places...

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History of Art

Renaissance and Baroque Art Selected Essays

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226668727, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
416 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 105 colour plates, 140 halftone

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporar...

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History of Art

Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting in Australia and the United States

Read Richard, Haltman Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780932171696, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 colour plates

This volume of essays frames a comparative history of landscape painting in Australia and the United States through recent considerations of the Anthropocene, arguing that careful and deep analysis of specific nineteenth-century artworks reveals issu...

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Photography

Latoya Ruby Frazier The Last Cruze

Frazier Latoya Ruby, Wales Lund Karsten, Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548793, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, June 2020
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 colour plates, 116 halftones

As the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio halted production and faced possible closure, displacing its workers, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier joined with these workers, their families, and their local union leaders to tell the story of the plant in...

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Fashion

Ecology

Shoddy From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags

Shell Hanna Rose

ISBN: HB: 9780226377759, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
272 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 65 halftones

You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material m...

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Contemporary Art

Fluxus Forms Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network

Harren Natilee

ISBN: HB: 9780226354927, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 12 colour plates, 70 halftones

"PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art... Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples", writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world enthr...

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Contemporary Art

At the Corner of a Dream A Journey of Resistance and Revolution: The Street Art of Bahia Shehab

Shehab Bahia

ISBN: PB: 9781909942394, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, March 2020
96 pp., 24.7x24.1 cm, 86 colour plates

Working with stylized typographic and calligraphic forms, Egyptian-Lebanese street artist Bahia Shehab brings creative presentations of language and culture to public spaces around the world. During the Egyptian revolution of 2011, she began taking t...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 54, 2019

Allon Niv, D'Alessandro Stephanie, Graff Sarah, Najat Haidar Navina, Holcomb Melanie, Leona Marco, Mahon Dorothy, McDonald Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226676968, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Contemporary Art

Manifesto of Artistic Research

Mersch Dieter, Henke Silvia, Strassle Thomas, Wiesel Jorg, van der Meulen Nicolaj

ISBN: PB: 9783035802207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
128 pp., 29.2x17.7 cm

Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to ex...

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