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Brown Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780226283029, ISBN: HB: 9780226076652, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 30 halftones

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone – the humanities continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? In "Other Thin...

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History of Art

On Art

Kabakov Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9780226384733, ISBN: HB: 9780226384566, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov was a galvanizing figure in Moscow's underground art community, ultimately gaining international prominence as the "leader" of a band of artists known as the Moscow Conceptual Cir...

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America

Origins of Cool in Postwar America

Dinerstein Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226599069, ISBN: HB: 9780226152653, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

"Cool". It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. "The Origins of Cool in Postwar America" uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came...

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History

Osiris, Volume 33 Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories

Rieppel Lukas, Deringer William, Lean Eugenia

ISBN: PB: 9780226602325, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the "history of capital...

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Contemporary Art

Out of Easy Reach

Glenn Allison M.

ISBN: PB: 9780985096069, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, September 2018
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 colour plates, 3 maps

Countering conventional accounts of art history, which have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, the exhibition "Out of Easy Reach" presents the work of twenty-four US-based, female-identifying artists from the black and Lat...

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Photography

Object Lessons Zofia Rydet's "Sociological Record"

Pijarski Krzysztof

ISBN: PB: 9788364177378, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, May 2018
280 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 140 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911-1097) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her "Sociological Record": photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordinary archive of around...

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Philosophy

On Descartes' Passive Thought The Myth of Cartesian Dualism

Marion Jean-Luc

ISBN: HB: 9780226192581, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"On Descartes' Passive Thought" is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his pre...

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Political Science

Organizing Democracy How International Organizations Assist New Democracies

Poast Paul, Urpelainen Johannes

ISBN: PB: 9780226543482, ISBN: HB: 9780226543345, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 21 tables

In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democ...

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History of Art

Outliers and American Vanguard Art

Cooke Lynne

ISBN: HB: 9780226522272, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
448 pp., 30.4x25 cm, 450 colour plates

Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it ha...

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Law

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Legal Logic

Kellogg Frederic R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226523903, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Legal Logic", Frederic R. Kellogg examines the early diaries, reading, and writings of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) to assess his contribution to both legal logic and general logical theory. Thro...

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