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Contemporary Art

Transience Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century

Hung Wu

ISBN: PB: 9780226360713, University of Chicago Press, December 2005
216 pp., 27.9x19 cm, 72 colour plates, 46 halftones

In a groundbreaking approach to avant-garde Chinese art, the 1999 exhibition "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century" established a historical framework for current artistic production in China. Organized by the Davi...

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Photography

Tunnels

Principe Andre

ISBN: PB: 9781861542762, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, October 2005
112 pp., 26x20 cm, 125 colour illus.

Through reportage photographs of people in the private and public environment, "Tunnels" explores the idea of isolation and the boundaries of knowing others and ourselves. Andre Principe's work is about emotions. In "Tunnels", the artist looks at lon...

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History of Art

Toward a Geography of Art

Kaufmann Thomas DaCosta

ISBN: PB: 9780226133126, University of Chicago Press, March 2004
504 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 91 halftones

Art history traditionally classifies works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are highly complex and fluid. Questions of identity, policy, and exchange make it difficult to determine the "place" o...

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History of Art

Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada

Franklin David

ISBN: HB: 9780300099447, Yale University Press, September 2003
288 pp., 28.5x24.8 cm, 135 illus.

Pride of place is given to the Gallery's unparalleled holdings in Canadian art, but European art – paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings – is equally well represented. Masterworks from the Inuit art collection are also included, as well as examp...

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Photography

Architecture

Transit

Brambilla Marco

ISBN: HB: 9781861541246, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2002
60 pp., 31.8x21 cm, 125 colour illus.

Composed of colour photographs taken in and around national and international airports, this volume presents graphic design related to air travel. The film director Marco Brambilla has taken images from the highly coded systems and endless architectu...

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History of Art

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

Barnhart Richard M., Xin Yang, Chongzheng Nie, Cahill James, Shaojun Lang, Hung Wu

ISBN: PB: 9780300094473, Yale University Press, August 2002
416 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 25 black&white illus., 300 colour illus.

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.

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Photography

Taken by Design Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971

Travis David, Siegel Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226811673, University of Chicago Press, May 2002
272 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 20 colour plates, 250 halftones

One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of i...

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History of Art

Those Delightful Regions of Imagination Essays on George Romney

Kidson Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780300094589, Yale University Press, February 2002
312 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 105 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

This collection of writings by specialists from many disciplines explores a wide range of topics relating to English painter George Romney (1734-1802). The contributors to the book address not only Romney's personality and artistic practice, but also...

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Contemporary Art

Toni Grand

Diserens Corrine

ISBN: HB: 9780941548434, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2002
60 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 13 halftones

This catalogue is the first English-language monograph on the work of this French sculptor, who gained critical recognition as a member of the French movement Supports-Surfaces, founded in 1970. This group viewed the formal relationships between the...

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History of Art

Transforming Images The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

Donnelley Robert G., Greene Candace S., Berlo Janet Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780935573312, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, March 2001
216 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 15 black&white photographs

Silver Horn's lifespan (1860-1940) placed him in the midst of extreme cultural transformations: by the time of his death, highways, silos, and gas stations dominated the land that had, at his birth, been the domain of buffalo herds and Plains Indians...

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