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Allure of Matter Materiality Across Chinese Art
ISBN: PB: 9780935573640, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 110 colour plates
Building on the Art and Materiality Symposium held on the occasion of the Smart Museum's exhibition The Allure of Matter, this publication considers the important but often overlooked role materials have played in the history of Chinese art and inclu...
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£28,00
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Claudia Wieser Generations
ISBN: HB: 9780935573633, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 colour plates
Claudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality – such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee – she considers abstraction...
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£23,00
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Theme and Variations The Multiple Sorceries of Felix Buhot
ISBN: PB: 9780935573596, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
60 pp., 15.2x24.1 cm, 60 colour plates
In the late nineteenth century, French printmaker Felix Buhot effected a kind of sorcery on his etching plates, making each impression into a unique work of art simply by varying the inking technique and the inks and papers used. With his evocative,...
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£12,00
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Allure of Matter Material Art from China
ISBN: HB: 9780935573602, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2019
264 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 257 colour plates
From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works–in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco–form a major trend in Chinese art. "The Allure of Matter" offers the first serious consideration of...
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£34,00
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There Was a Whole Collection Made Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman
ISBN: HB: 9780935573565, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2017
240 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 235 colour plates
In 2014, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago received a generous gift from collectors Lester and Betty Guttman: 830 photographs, created by a total of 414 artists, that cover a time period stretching all the way from the early 1800s...
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£30,00
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Monster Roster Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780935573480, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour plates, 35 halftones
Accompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Go...
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£34,00
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Performing Images Opera in Chinese Visual Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780935573558, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2014
224 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates
Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbe Huc exclaimed: "There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese". Although the spectacle o...
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£26,50
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Feast Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art
ISBN: PB: 9780935573527, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, August 2013
380 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 320 colour illus.
The companion to a one-of-a-kind exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, "Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art" explores the role of the meal in contemporary art. Feast offers the first survey of the artist-orchestrat...
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£34,00
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Sahmat Collective Art and Activism in India since 1989
ISBN: PB: 9780935573534, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, April 2013
300 pp., 27.9x24 cm, 420 colour illus.
Founded in 1989, the influential Delhi-based artists' organization Sahmat has offered a platform for artists, writers, poets, musicians, and actors to create and present works that promote artistic freedom and secular, egalitarian values. A companion...
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£30,00
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Tragic Muse Art and Emotion, 1700-1900
ISBN: PB: 9780935573497, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, December 2010
128 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 75 colour illus.
Art is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darker emotions, such as fear, sadness, and grief. And while these themes have an artistic history dating ba...
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£22,50
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