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History of Art

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: HB: 9788024602356, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2001
431 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The English version of the major book from Petr Wittlich, which charts the crisis and development of Czech monumental sculpture at the turn of the 19th/20th century and explores the new de...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Louise Bourgeois' Spider The Architecture of Art-Writing

Bal Mieke

ISBN: HB: 9780226035758, University of Chicago Press, June 2001
88 pp., 22x16.8 cm, 25 colour illus.

The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation "Spider" (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It...

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History of Art

Edvard Munch Psyche, Symbol and Expression

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850027, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2001
168 pp., 24.8x21.8 cm, 125 halftones, 24 colour plates

"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?" – Edvard Munch Published in conjunction with a major exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College,"Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression" includes nine essays fr...

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Jewish Studies

Fiction

Two Jews on a Train Stories from the Old Country and the New

Biro Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226052168, ISBN: HB: 9780226052144, University of Chicago Press, May 2001
144 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Two Jews were traveling on a train..". Many Eastern European jokes – and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book – begin this way. From all regions of the world and from all walks of life, the characters are young and...

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Photography

Culture Studies

On European Ground

Cohen Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780226112947, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
128 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 94 duotones

A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember...

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History of Art

Leonardo, The Last Supper

Barcilon Pinin Brambilla, Marani Pietro C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226504278, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
458 pp., 12x10 cm, 382 colour plates, 64 halftones

Leonardo's Last Supper, one of the most important works of the Renaissance if not all of Western art, was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. From the moment that the prior at the monastery complained...

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Contemporary Art

Guide to Chicago's Murals

Lackritz Gray Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226305998, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
520 pp., 19.7x15.6 cm, 204 colour plates, 35 halftones

Chicago is a city known for its fabulous architecture and public sculpture by artists such as Picasso and Calder, but anyone who has seen the gorgeous lunettes in the Auditorium Theater or the South Side's Wall of Respect, which inaugurated the city'...

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Philosophy

Dynamics of Reason

Friedman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781575862927, ISBN: HB: 9781575862910, University of Chicago Press, March 2001
155 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book introduces a new approach to the issue of radical scientific revolutions, or "paradigm-shifts", given prominence in the work of Thomas Kuhn. The book articulates a dynamical and historicized version of the conception of scientific a priori...

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History of Art

Transforming Images The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

Donnelley Robert G., Greene Candace S., Berlo Janet Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780935573312, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, March 2001
216 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 15 black&white photographs

Silver Horn's lifespan (1860-1940) placed him in the midst of extreme cultural transformations: by the time of his death, highways, silos, and gas stations dominated the land that had, at his birth, been the domain of buffalo herds and Plains Indians...

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Women Studies

World Apart and Other Stories Czech Women around the Turn of the 19th-20th century

Hayes Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9788024601663, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2001
204 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The book presents to the reader the first ever English translation of short stories, so far for no reason rather neglected, by Czech female authors at the turn of the 19th and 20th century...

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