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Red Empty (Chicago 2003)
ISBN: PB: 9780945323044, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2005
128 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 56 colour plates
Light and darkness transform city buildings into surreal structures: an ordinary gray concrete building in plain daylight changes at night into a mysterious monolith or, under a blue-tinted lens, into an ethereal edifice. Swedish artist Carl Michael...
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£16,50
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Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key The Pope's Visit and Civic Space for Cuban Religion
ISBN: PB: 9781589660052, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
211 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This book present a multi-disciplinary study of Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba in 1998. The essays represent several disciplines: sociology, anthropology, political science, religious studies and theology. Authors agree on several major points: on...
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£23,00
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Anthracite Ghosts
ISBN: PB: 9780940866454, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
103 pp., 28x21.7 cm
Walter Dinteman wandered the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1973, photographic the remains of the anthracite coal industry. Many of these buildings have long since decayed. Dinteman's photographs tell the story of beauty amid d...
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£19,00
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Art in Mind How Contemporary Images Shape Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780226015293, ISBN: HB: 9780226015286, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 72 halftones
Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In "Art in Mind", Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intelle...
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£28,00
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£80,00
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Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)
ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones
The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...
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£39,00
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£76,00
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Land of Two Peoples Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs
ISBN: PB: 9780226078021, University of Chicago Press, February 2005
342 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Theologian, philosopher, and political radical, Martin Buber (1878-1965) was actively committed to a fundamental economic and political reconstruction of society as well as the pursuit of international peace. In his voluminous writings on Arab-Jewish...
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£13,50
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Sebastian's Arrows Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca
ISBN: HB: 9780967880884, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2005
248 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates
"Let us agree", Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian". "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you", Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had j...
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£30,00
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Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9780226894430, University of Chicago Press, February 2005
150 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 30 halftones
One of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt's extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figures from the late 1650s and early 1660s. Painted during a difficult time in the artist's life – when he n...
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£37,00
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Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason Volume Two: A Poststructuralist Mapping of History
ISBN: PB: 9780226254715, ISBN: HB: 9780226254708, University of Chicago Press, February 2005
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 figures
Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent th...
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£28,00
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£70,00
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Rebecca Morris Paintings 1996-2005
ISBN: PB: 9780941548496, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2005
88 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 39 colour plates
If the closure of Modernist painting is taken as the closure of painting itself, then under the aegis of postmodernism, painting's history is a finite collection of fully legible styles up for being quoted. In this circumstance, the question arises o...
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