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History of Art

Tekstura Russian Essays on Visual Culture

Efimova Alla, Manovich Lev

ISBN: PB: 9780226951249, ISBN: HB: 9780226951232, University of Chicago Press, October 1993
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 15 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 figures

Fascinated by the myth of the Russian avant-garde and scornful of official art, the West has been selective in its engagement with Russian visual culture. Yet how do contemporary Russian scholars and critics themselves approach the history of visual...

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Cartography

Things Maps Don't Tell Us An Adventure into Map Interpretation

Lobeck Armin K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226488776, University of Chicago Press, June 1993
174 pp., 26.2x18.9 cm, line drawings throughout

Foreword to the 1993 Edition Introduction I. Coast Lines 1. Distorted Coast Lines. A Map of the World of 1589 2. Projections and Protuberances. Gulf of Mexico 3. Peninsulas. The Peninsula of Denmark 4. Peninsulas. The Peninsula of Florida 5. Peninsu...

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History of Art

Temptation of Saint Redon Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon

Eisenman Stephen F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195483, University of Chicago Press, December 1992
310 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 156 halftones

Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In "The Temptation of Saint Redon", Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's co...

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Contemporary Art

Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World, 1940-1985

Crane Diana

ISBN: PB: 9780226117904, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
204 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones

With the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana Crane documents the transformation of the New York art world between 1940 and 1985, both in the artistic styles that emerged during this p...

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