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Archaeology & Paleontology

Time Line of Culture in the Nile Valley and Its Relationship to Other World Cultures

Liebling Roslyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300085600, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
70 pp., 33.5x10.5 cm

A pictorial survey of Egyptian art and history from Paleolithic times to the present, with cross-cultural references.

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Contemporary Art

Transforming the Crown African, Asian, and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996

Sirmans M. Franklin, Beauchamp-Byrd Mora J.

ISBN: PB: 9780965408202, University of Chicago Press, March 1997
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 73 colour plates, 175 halftones

Transforming the Crown is the catalog for a landmark exhibition organized by the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute in New York City. The exhibition chronicles the aesthetic production of artists of African and Asian descent in the...

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Photography

Tom Gibson False Evidence Appearing Real

Langford Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780888845672, University of Chicago Press, August 1994
109 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 46 halftones

"Tom Gibson: False Evidence Appearing Real" features forty-four photographs, an interview with Gibson, and critical commentary. Gibson's photographs depict cities and their inhabitants in Europe, Canada, and the United States. In many images, the cit...

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History of Art

To Destroy Painting

Marin Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780226505350, ISBN: HB: 9780226505343, University of Chicago Press, March 1994
196 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 22 halftones

The work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-1992) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation".To Destroy Painting", first published in France in 1977, marks a milestone...

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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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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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