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De-Definition of Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226726731, University of Chicago Press, June 1983
256 pp., 20.1x13.3 cm, 53 halftones
Contents: On the De-definition of Art Part One: Art and Words 1. Redmen to Earthworks 2. De-aestheticization 3. Educating Artists 4. Surrealism in the Streets 5. Art and Words Part Two: Artists 6. Pro-Art Dada – Jean Arp 7. Primitive a la Mode – J...
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£23,00
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Meaning in the Visual Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226645513, University of Chicago Press, March 1983
384 pp., 22.9x14.7 cm, 64 pages of illus.
Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion...
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£31,00
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Raw and the Cooked Mythologiques, Volume 1
ISBN: PB: 9780226474878, University of Chicago Press, March 1983
402 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.
Illustrations Table of Symbols Overture Part One: Theme and Variations 1. Bororo Song a. The Bird-Nester's Aria b. Recitative c. First Variation d. Interlude in a Discrete Mode e. Continuation of the First Variation f. Second Variation g. Coda 2. G...
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£31,00
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Structural Anthropology, Volume 2
ISBN: PB: 9780226474915, University of Chicago Press, February 1983
500 pp., 23x15 cm
The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Levi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology". As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structur...
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£25,50
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Rhetoric of Fiction
ISBN: PB: 9780226065588, University of Chicago Press, February 1983
572 pp., 23x15 cm
The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictiona...
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£22,00
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Positions
ISBN: PB: 9780226143316, University of Chicago Press, November 1982
122 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as "Writing and Difference" and "Dissemination". Derrida takes positions on h...
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£15,00
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Critical Understanding The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
ISBN: PB: 9780226065557, University of Chicago Press, September 1982
422 pp., 23x15 cm
Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In "Critical Understanding", Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism – a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any on...
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£34,50
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South Asian Civilizations A Bibliographic Synthesis
ISBN: HB: 9780226649108, University of Chicago Press, December 1981
894 pp., 28.8x22.8 cm, 2 maps
Indispensable Patterson, the preeminent bibliographer in the area of South Asian studies, has here devised an indispensible reference tool. She has drawn together over 28,000 periodical and monographic references to humanistic, social-science, and no...
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£104,00
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Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas
ISBN: PB: 9780226092638, University of Chicago Press, August 1981
128 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
This book represents the culmination of a lifetime of research in the spoken Spanish dialects of the Americas by one of the foremost experts in this field. Based on more than sixty years of residence, travel, research, and teaching among Spanish-spea...
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Learning to Look A Handbook for the Visual Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226791548, University of Chicago Press, June 1981
186 pp., 23.5x14.9 cm, 2 colour plates, 42 halftones
Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look". This handy guide...
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£11,50
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