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History of Art

Fryer Heather

ISBN: PB: 9781892850041, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2002
113 pp., 25.7x25.7 cm

The American West has had an enormous influence on the nation's imagination, including its fine art. From the Western Realists – as epitomized by the Cowboy Artists of America's mission to produce "authentic representations of life in the West" – to...

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History of Art

Confronting Identities in German Art Myths, Reactions, Reflections

Heller Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780935573367, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
180 pp., 28.1x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

What does it mean to be German? Recent answers to this question have ranged from the general ("Germans are always the other") to the analytic ("They are a multiple identity with a constant wish for redefinition"). The catalogue for "Confronting Ident...

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Education

Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure

Goldsmith John A., Komlos John, Gold Penny Schine

ISBN: PB: 9780226301518, ISBN: HB: 9780226301501, University of Chicago Press, September 2001
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 tables

Is a career as a professor the right choice for you? If you are a graduate student, how can you clear the hurdles successfully and position yourself for academic employment? What's the best way to prepare for a job interview, and how can you maximize...

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History of Art

Classical Collection of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago

Ferrari Gloria, Nielsen Christina M., Olson Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9780935573251, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, May 1999
256 pp., 26.5x20.9 cm, 22 colour illus., 329 black&white illus.

The Smart Museum's Classical collection began developing in the 1890s and now consists of approximately eight hundred pieces, including large-scale statuary and floor mosaics, vases, figurines, coins, lamps, and other utensils. The first extensive st...

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Cartography

Cartographies of Danger Mapping Hazards in America

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534190, ISBN: HB: 9780226534183, University of Chicago Press, October 1998
378 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 97 maps

No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley", near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made ha...

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Christianity

Judaism

Critical Terms for Religious Studies

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226791579, ISBN: HB: 9780226791562, University of Chicago Press, August 1998
430 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 table

A century that began with modernism sweeping across Europe is ending with a remarkable resurgence of religious beliefs and practices throughout the world. Wherever one looks today, from headlines about political turmoil in the Middle East to pop musi...

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Reference

Catalogue of Watermarks in Italian Printed Maps, ca. 1540-1600

Woodward David

ISBN: HB: 9780226907277, University of Chicago Press, September 1996
206 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 335 halftones, 335 line drawings

This catalogue presents over three-hundred photographic images of watermarks found in Italian printed maps of the sixteenth century. Such watermarks are essential tools in identifying paper moulds and are part of the evidence that bibliographers use...

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Architecture

Collective Vision Creating a Contemporary Art Museum

ISBN: PB: 9780933856431, University of Chicago Press, September 1996
156 pp., 27.8x25.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 45 halftones

It is said that art reveals the heart of humankind, architecture the soul of civilization. This summer, heart and soul will merge in the new building for Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Designed by famous Berlin architect Josef Paul Kleihues (h...

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Philosophy

Composing the Soul Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology

Parkes Graham

ISBN: PB: 9780226646879, ISBN: HB: 9780226646862, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
496 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table

Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo" (1888), "That a psychologist without equal speaks from my writings – this is perhaps the first insight gained by a good reader... Who among the philosophers before me was in any way a psychologist? Before me there simpl...

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Philosophy

Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason

White Beck Lewis

ISBN: PB: 9780226040752, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

When this work was first published in 1960, it immediately filled a void in Kantian scholarship. It was the first study entirely devoted to Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason" and by far the most substantial commentary on it ever written. This land...

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