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Accounting for Taste The Triumph of French Cuisine
ISBN: PB: 9780226243245, ISBN: HB: 9780226243238, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
262 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 13 line illus.
French cuisine is such a staple in our understanding of fine food that we forget the accidents of history that led to its creation".Accounting for Taste" brings these "accidents" to the surface, illuminating the magic of French cuisine and the myster...
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Artemisia Files Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People
ISBN: PB: 9780226035826, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
245 pp., 19.4x13.1 cm, 44 halftones
One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of It...
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Now Don't Try to Reason with Me Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226065809, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
398 pp., 23x15 cm
In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned "middle ground" for reason – a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. F...
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Rhetoric of Perspective Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting
ISBN: PB: 9780226309705, ISBN: HB: 9780226309682, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
246 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates, 2 line drawings
Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us...
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What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
ISBN: PB: 9780226532486, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings
Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or e...
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Architecture of Aftermath
ISBN: PB: 9780226764696, ISBN: HB: 9780226764689, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
280 pp., 25.2x17.5 cm, 58 halftones
The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power". In "The Architecture of Aftermath", Terry Smith argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings: architecture...
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Sprawl A Compact History
ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table
As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...
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Politics of Urban Beauty New York and Its Art Commission
ISBN: HB: 9780226063058, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
352 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 85 halftones
Since its founding in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York (ACNY) has served as the city's aesthetic gatekeeper, evaluating all works of art intended for display on city property. And over the years, the commission's domain has expanded d...
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Norman Rockwell The Underside of Innocence
ISBN: HB: 9780226314402, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
218 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 12 colour plates, 40 halftones
Norman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are among the most indelible images in all of twentieth-century art. While opinions of Rockwell vary from uncritical admiration to sneering contempt, those who love him and those who dismiss him do...
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Making Memory Matter Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226734088, ISBN: HB: 9780226734071, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
128 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 23 halftones
In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first to...
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