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Art in a Disrupted World Poland 1939–1949
ISBN: PB: 9788364177750, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! With Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish-born a...
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£24,00
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Apocalypse of Truth Heideggerian Meditations
ISBN: HB: 9780226766737, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We inhabit a time of crisis – totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. Philosopher Jean Vioulac is invested in and worried by all of this, but his main concern lies with how these phenomena all repr...
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£32,00
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Architectures of Embodiment Disclosing New Intelligibilities
ISBN: PB: 9783035801996, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book began within Architecture of Embodiment, a research environment focused on the inquiry of architecture from an enactivist perspective and through aesthetic practices. Primarily, Architecture of Embodiment does not aim to find answers to its...
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£40,00
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As You Like It
ISBN: PB: 9780866986618, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, April 2021
122 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Actor and director David Ivers presents As You Like It, as you'd like to hear it today. Presenting a new translation of Shakespeare into contemporary English, Ivers reimagines Shakespeare's comedy from an actor's point of view. Analyzing the play lin...
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£8,00
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Aesthetics of the Commons
ISBN: PB: 9783035803457, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What do a feminist server, an art space located in a public park in North London, a so-called pirate library of high cultural value yet dubious legal status, and an art school that emphasizes collectivity have in common? They all demonstrate that art...
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£20,00
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Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones
Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...
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£17,00
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£23,00
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Animals' Best Friends Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild
ISBN: HB: 9780226601489, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As people come to understand more about animals' inner lives – the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day by whales and cows, octopus and mice, even bees – we feel a growing compassion, a desire to better their li...
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£20,00
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Appalachia as Contested Borderland of the Early Modern Atlantic, 1528-1715
ISBN: PB: 9780866986328, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, March 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
This monograph explores the European obsession with Appalachian mineral resources during the years between 1528 and 1715, reframing Appalachian history within the fields of Latin American, early American, and Atlantic history. While political activis...
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£52,00
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Artist as Author Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting
ISBN: HB: 9780226752952, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 45 halftones
With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking a close look at this influential period of art history, Robbins describes how artists and critics used...
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£36,00
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Accidental Pluralism America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662
ISBN: HB: 9780226742618, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public arguments over the religious and political values that define it. In "Accidental Pluralism", Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diver...
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£36,00
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