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Photography

Picturing Ourselves Photography and Autobiography

Rugg Linda Haverty

ISBN: PB: 9780226731476, ISBN: HB: 9780226731469, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
293 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convin...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art

Bogart Michele H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226063089, ISBN: HB: 9780226063072, University of Chicago Press, November 1997
444 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 93 halftones

Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol, J. C. Leyendecker and Georgia O'Keeffe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pepsi-Cola, the avant garde and the Famous Artists Schools, Inc. : these are some of the unexpected pairings encountered in "Artists, Advertis...

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History of Art

Eskimo Artists

Himmelheber Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780912006697, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 1997
83 pp., 23.3x21.7 cm, black&white photos

Hans Himmelheber describes the cultural and artistic heritage of the Yup'ik in southwestern Alaska during the late 1930s. His work is remarkable because he emphasized drawing, carving, and painting as part of a narrative process instead of focusing o...

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History of Art

Largesse

Starobinski Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226771366, ISBN: HB: 9780226771359, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
220 pp., 30x21.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 50 halftones

In 1990 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made their holdings available to guest curators for a program called Parti Pris, or "Taking Sides". In this program, major cultural figures outside of the discipline of art history organized exhibi...

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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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History of Art

Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art

Koerner Joseph Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226449999, University of Chicago Press, February 1997
564 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 223 halftones

In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new modes of inquiry for historians of art and early modern Europe, Koerner examines how artists such as Albrecht D...

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History of Art

Likeness and Presence A History of the Image before the Era of Art

Belting Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226042152, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
676 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 12 colour plates, 294 halftones

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its c...

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History of Art

Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771878, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
426 pp., 23.4x19.8 cm, 300 halftones

Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg...

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