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Edward Said Continuing the Conversation

Mitchell W. J. T., Bhabha Homi K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532035, ISBN: HB: 9780226532011, University of Chicago Press, April 2005
200 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation", Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of 2003. The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of...

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Reference

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Grossman James R., Keating Ann Durkin, Reiff Janice L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226310152, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
1152 pp., 27.1x21.6 cm, 56 p. colour insert, 475 halftones, 442 maps, 10 tables

One of the great American metropolises, Chicago rises out of the prairie in the heart of the country, buffeted by winds coming off the plains and cooled by the waters of the inland sea of Lake Michigan. Chicago is a city of size and mass, the cradle...

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Cultural Studies

Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters

McCawley James D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226555928, University of Chicago Press, May 2004
254 pp., 20.3x13 cm, 23 menus in Chinese

Lauded by Calvin Trillin as a man who "does not have to make to with translations like 'Shredded Three Kinds' in Chinese restaurants", in "The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters", James D. McCawley offers everyone a guide to deciphering the mysterie...

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History of Art

Eire/Land

Kreilkamp Vera

ISBN: PB: 9781892850058, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, May 2003
225 pp., 26.7x24.2 cm, 100 colour plates

From its earliest history, Ireland has been contested land, claimed by waves of invaders, each attempting to inscribe and possess the island territory. The eire/Land exhibition, to be held at the McMullen Museum from February to May 2003, is the firs...

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Contemporary Art

Ecology

Ecologies Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573329, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 2001
96 pp., 22.8x16.4 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones

Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavor that has required new strategies in art-making. To explore recent American manifestations of these interests, the David and Alfred Smart Museum commissio...

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History of Art

Edvard Munch Psyche, Symbol and Expression

Howe Jeffery W.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850027, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2001
168 pp., 24.8x21.8 cm, 125 halftones, 24 colour plates

"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?" – Edvard Munch Published in conjunction with a major exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College,"Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression" includes nine essays fr...

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Contemporary Art

Exhibiting Experimental Art in China

Hung Wu

ISBN: PB: 9780935573336, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2000
224 pp., 28.1x18.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 29 halftones

In his new book, Wu Hung raises timely questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Here, as in the Smart Museum's exhibition "Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China", Wu uses the government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me (Beiji...

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History of Art

Eskimo Artists

Himmelheber Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780912006697, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 1997
83 pp., 23.3x21.7 cm, black&white photos

Hans Himmelheber describes the cultural and artistic heritage of the Yup'ik in southwestern Alaska during the late 1930s. His work is remarkable because he emphasized drawing, carving, and painting as part of a narrative process instead of focusing o...

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Philosophy

Embodiment of Reason Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community

Meld Shell Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226752174, ISBN: HB: 9780226752150, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
492 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant'...

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Philosophy

Elevations The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas

Cohen Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112756, ISBN: HB: 9780226112749, University of Chicago Press, December 1994
364 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

"Elevations" is a series of closely related essays on the ground-breaking philosophical and theological work of Emmanuel Levinas and Franz Rosenzweig, two of the twentieth century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of trans...

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