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Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the French Painting World
ISBN: PB: 9780226894874, University of Chicago Press, March 1993
198 pp., 21.9x14.2 cm, 13 halftones
In the nineteenth century, the Academie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present system of art distribution, which is dependent upon crit...
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£19,50
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Phenomenology and Deconstruction Volume Two: Method and Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226123691, ISBN: HB: 9780226123684, University of Chicago Press, January 1993
404 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Husserl had captured me, I saw everything in terms of the perspectives of his philosophy", wrote Sartre of his conversion to Husserl's phenomenology. In the present volume Cumming analyzes Sartre's transformation of Husserl's phenomenological method...
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£43,50
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£97,00
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Temptation of Saint Redon Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon
ISBN: HB: 9780226195483, University of Chicago Press, December 1992
310 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 156 halftones
Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In "The Temptation of Saint Redon", Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's co...
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£79,00
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Greek and Egyptian Mythologies
ISBN: PB: 9780226064543, University of Chicago Press, November 1992
294 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout
The seventy-two entries in this volume explore, among other topics, the history, geography, and religion of Greece, Plato's mythology and philosophy, the powers of marriage in Greece, heroes and gods of war in the Greek epic, and origins of mankind i...
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£33,00
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Roman and European Mythologies
ISBN: PB: 9780226064550, University of Chicago Press, November 1992
342 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout
This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries by leading scholars cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its ori...
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£40,00
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Genesis of Kant's Critique of Judgment
ISBN: PB: 9780226978550, University of Chicago Press, August 1992
490 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this philosophically sophisticated and historically significant work, John H. Zammito reconstructs Kant's composition of The Critique of Judgment and reveals that it underwent three major transformations before publication. He shows that Kant not...
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£32,50
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History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1 Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
ISBN: HB: 9780226316352, University of Chicago Press, August 1992
604 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 40 page colour insert, 40 colour plates, 355 halftones, 8 tables
The first book of volume 2 of the monumental "History of Cartography" focuses on mapping in non-Western cultures, an area of study traditionally overlooked by Western scholars. Extensive original research makes this the foremost source for defining,...
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£226,00
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Mantegna and Painting as Historical Narrative
ISBN: HB: 9780226307077, University of Chicago Press, June 1992
316 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 61 halftones
In this extraordinary explication of one of the most enigmatic and influential works of the Renaissance, the "Uffizi Circumcision of Christ", Jack M. Greenstein reassesses the nature and goals of high humanist narrative painting. Contents: List o...
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£58,00
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Ancestral Connections Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge
ISBN: PB: 9780226538662, University of Chicago Press, March 1992
348 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 56 figures
"Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu – an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land – and applying both anthropological and art histori...
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£37,00
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Object of Performance The American Avant-Garde since 1970
ISBN: PB: 9780226735580, University of Chicago Press, February 1992
324 pp., 23x16 cm, 4 colour plates, 91 halftones
Sayre defines for the first time the apparently diffuse avant-garde art of the past two decades in terms of its distinctly postmodern concerns. The range of arts discussed here encompasses contemporary dance, photography, oral poetics, performance ar...
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£47,50
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