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Queering the Underworld Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
ISBN: PB: 9780226327914, ISBN: HB: 9780226327907, University of Chicago Press, December 2007
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing
At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid detai...
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£30,00
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£68,00
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Israel in the Middle East Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780874519624, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2007
650 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This timely anthology, completely revised and updated from the original edition in 1984, provides convenient access to the most significant documents of the Zionist movement since 1882 and of Israel's domestic and foreign policy issues between 1948 a...
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£36,00
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Again Selected Interviews and Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780945323143, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2007
144 pp., 21.4x17.4 cm, 24 colour plates
Dike Blair is part of a tradition of artists who also write. From an early point in his career Blair has worked on parallel paths, with his writing both reflecting and influencing his artistic production. His paintings and sculptures celebrate moment...
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£11,50
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Chicago under Glass Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
ISBN: HB: 9780226089300, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
272 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 260 duotones
When the "Chicago Daily News" closed its doors in March 1978 after over a century of publication, the city mourned the loss of an American original".The Daily News" boasted the inventive, aggressive writing of such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and Ben...
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£34,00
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Pasta and Pizza
ISBN: PB: 9780979405716, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2007
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Pasta and pizza, in all their infinitely delicious and universally appealing varieties, are inextricably connected to Italian identity. These familiar foods not only represent Italy's culinary traditions, according to anthropologist Franco La Cecla,...
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£10,00
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Youth Without Youth
ISBN: PB: 9780226204154, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
140 pp., 20x14 cm
Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history – a man who thought his li...
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£9,00
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Pollock Matters
ISBN: PB: 9781892850133, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2007
178 pp., 28x28 cm, 282 colour plates
Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademark "drip" technique in which he poured paint from its can directly onto the canvas".Pollock Matters...
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£41,50
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Telling About Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings
"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...
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£37,50
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
ISBN: HB: 9780226293257, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
260 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour plates
Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U. S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as l...
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£28,00
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Other Criteria Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226771854, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 295 halftones
Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flatbed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and...
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£43,50
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