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Asian Mythologies
ISBN: PB: 9780226064567, University of Chicago Press, May 1993
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout
These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of t...
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£31,00
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Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze Picasso's Pursuit of the Model
ISBN: HB: 9780226439839, University of Chicago Press, April 1993
273 pp., 24.7x23.3 cm, 154 halftones
Although Pablo Picasso's name is virtually synonymous with modernity, his late graphics repeatedly turn back to the traditional theme of the artist and model. Had the aging artist turned reactionary, or is Picasso's treatment of the theme more subver...
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£81,00
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Ancestral Connections Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge
ISBN: PB: 9780226538662, University of Chicago Press, March 1992
348 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 56 figures
"Ancestral Connections" unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu – an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land – and applying both anthropological and art histori...
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£37,00
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Animals in Four Worlds Sculptures from India
ISBN: HB: 9780226767260, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
210 pp., 29x22.3 cm, 179 halftones
Animals play a special role in Indian culture. In opposition to deities, they help to frame the human community. Indian philosophy assumes the basic unity of animals and humans and in everyday life animals symbolize various ideas and sentiments. In t...
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£58,00
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Absorption and Theatricality Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
ISBN: PB: 9780226262130, University of Chicago Press, September 1988
268 pp., 25.5x17.9 cm, 70 halftones
With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood. Contents: Preface List of Illustrations 1. The Primacy of Absorption 2. Toward a Supreme Fiction 3. P...
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£24,00
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Artists Behind the Work Life Histories of Nick Charles, Sr., Frances Demientieff, Lena Sours, Jennie Thlunaut
ISBN: PB: 9780931163029, University of Chicago Press, November 1986
149 pp., 27.7x21.6 cm
This book features the life history and craft of four Alaska Native artists. As a group, the artists represent four different Native cultures and four different art forms: Nicholas Charles, Sr., a Yup'ik Eskimo known for his carved and painted wood m...
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£15,00
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Architecture of Michelangelo
ISBN: PB: 9780226002408, University of Chicago Press, April 1986
364 pp., 20.3x13.7 cm, 140 halftones
In this widely acclaimed work, James Ackerman considers in detail the buildings designed by Michelangelo in Florence and Rome – including the Medici Chapel, the Farnese Palace, the Basilica of St. Peter, and the Capitoline Hill. He then turns to an e...
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£28,50
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Against Theory Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism
ISBN: PB: 9780226532271, University of Chicago Press, June 1985
152 pp., 23x15 cm
"Against Theory", the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge – issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in "Critical Inquiry" (8:4) – strikes some...
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Art of Describing Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226015132, University of Chicago Press, April 1984
302 pp., 25.6x17.9 cm, 4 pages of colour plates, 182 halftones
Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Constantijn Huygens and The New World 2".Ut pictura, ita visio": Kepler's Model of the Eye and the Nature of Picturing in the North 3".With a Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye": The Craft of Rep...
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£31,00
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Art on the Edge Creators and Situations
ISBN: PB: 9780226726748, University of Chicago Press, June 1983
318 pp., 20.4x13.5 cm, 75 halftones
Contents: List of Illustrations Foreword Creators 1. Duchamp: Private and Public 2. Miro I. Fertile Fields II. Avant-Garde Masterpieces 3. Mondrian: Meaning in Abstract Art I 4. Newman: Meaning in Abstract Art II 5. Olitski, Kelly, Hamilton...
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£24,00
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