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Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226439471, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 73 halftones
Aby Warburg's "Mnemosyne Atlas" (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminat...
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£34,00
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Arthur Osver
ISBN: HB: 9780936316444, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, November 2018
224 pp., 29.7x24.6 cm, 120 colour plates
The first monograph on the work of the American painter Arthur Osver (1912-2006), this publication explores Osver's entire oeuvre, from early urban realism to decades of engagement with abstraction. His long and productive career took him from Chicag...
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£37,50
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Andy Warhol, Publisher
ISBN: HB: 9780226542843, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
176 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 43 halftones
Although we know him best as a visual artist and filmmaker, Andy Warhol was also a publisher. Distributing his own books and magazines, as well as contributing to those of others, Warhol found publishing to be one of his greatest pleasures, largely b...
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Art in Chicago A History from the Fire to Now
ISBN: HB: 9780226168319, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
448 pp., 29.2x24.6 cm, 160 colour plates, 29 halftones
For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand... well, people here...
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£49,00
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Artificial Darkness An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media
ISBN: PB: 9780226597751, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 145 halftones
Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, "artificial darkness" has been overlooked – until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science an...
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£25,00
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Abiding Grace Time, Modernity, Death
ISBN: PB: 9780226569086, ISBN: HB: 9780226568928, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings, 2 tables
Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post-age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his earliest philosophical themes and inquires, ultimately asking: What comes after...
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£75,00
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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2018, Issue 46
ISBN: PB: 9781846381973, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm
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£16,00
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After the Map Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226600536, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 colour plates, 144 halftones
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predi...
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Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9780226562285, ISBN: HB: 9780226562148, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousand...
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£67,50
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Apples and Oranges Explorations In, On, and With Comparison
ISBN: PB: 9780226564074, ISBN: HB: 9780226563916, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 tables
Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to tak...
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£79,00
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