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Cartography

Akerman James R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010748, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 81 halftones, 4 line drawings

Finding one's way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of m...

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Cartography

Sovereign Map Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History

Christian Jacob

ISBN: HB: 9780226389530, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 45 halftones, 15 line drawings

A novel work in the history of cartography, "The Sovereign Map" argues that maps are as much about thinking as seeing, as much about the art of persuasion as the science of geography. As a classicist, Christian Jacob brings a fresh eye to his subject...

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Education

Knowledge Most Worth Having

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065762, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
226 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Knowledge Most Worth Having" represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago – faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of kno...

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Contemporary Art

Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity

Drucker Johanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226165059, ISBN: HB: 9780226165042, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 32 halftones

Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that conte...

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Europe

Polonica

Crosses of Auschwitz Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland

Zubrzycki Genevieve

ISBN: PB: 9780226993041, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 39 halftones

In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended we...

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Linguistics

Reference

Surprised in Translation

Caws Mary Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226098739, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
128 pp., 21.9x15 cm, 2 halftones

For Mary Ann Caws – noted translator of surrealist poetry – the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction".Surprised...

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Literary Criticism

Essential Wayne Booth

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226065922, University of Chicago Press, July 2006
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables

Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time, most notably the 1961 classic "The Rhetoric of Fiction", a book that transformed literary criticism and became the standard reference point for advanced discussions of...

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History of Art

Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Netzer Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781892850102, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2006
300 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 135 colour plates, 27 halftones

A major contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance art, "Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century" studies nearly 100 works from the vast collections of the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in an effort to determine the m...

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Law

Permissions, A Survival Guide Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property

Bielstein Susan M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226046389, University of Chicago Press, June 2006
188 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 35 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. Art historians, artists, and anyone who wants to use the images of others will find themselves awash in byzantine...

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History of Art

Winslow Homer Poet of the Sea

Levy Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9780932171504, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2006
152 pp., 27.9x22.3 cm, 100 colour plates

Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: "Winslow Homer's" raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art".Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea" offers here a fresh ex...

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