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History of Art

Painting with Fire Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object

Hunter Matthew C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226390253, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 68 halftones,

"Painting with Fire" shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century – and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the...

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History of Art

Diagramming Devotion Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross

Hamburger Jeffrey F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226642819, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
384 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 183 colour plates, 38 halftones

During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such kno...

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Film Studies

Performing Arts

Film, Music, Memory

Hoeckner Berthold

ISBN: PB: 9780226649757, ISBN: HB: 9780226649610, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 colour plates, 44 halftones,

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. "Film, Music, Memory" reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audience...

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Poetry

HoodWitch

Hicks Faylita

ISBN: PB: 9781946724243, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2019
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. "HoodWitch" tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are "somethi...

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Women Studies

Disputed Legacies The Pakistan Papers

Hussain Neelam

ISBN: HB: 9789385932090, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2019
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, "Disputed Legacies" examines the situations that arise when secular law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief and how this directly affe...

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Physiology

Sport

Higher and Colder A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration

Heggie Vanessa

ISBN: HB: 9780226650883, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalaya to Antarctica and beyond, "Higher and Colder" presents the first history of extreme physi...

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Philosophy

Forming Humanity Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition

Herdt Jennifer A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226618487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Kant's proclamation of humankind's emergence from "self-incurred immaturity" left his contemporaries with a puzzle: What models should we use to sculpt ourselves if we no longer look to divine grace or received authorities? Deftly uncovering the roo...

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Contemporary Art

Allure of Matter Material Art from China

Hung Wu, Cacchione Orianna, Mehring Christine, Smith Trevor

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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Political Science

Who Wants to Run? How the Devaluing of Political Office Drives Polarization

Hall Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226609577, ISBN: HB: 9780226609430, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 line drawings, 16 tables

The growing ideological gulf between Democrats and Republicans is one of the biggest issues in American politics today. Our legislatures, composed of members from two sharply disagreeing parties, are struggling to function as the founders intended th...

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Culture Studies

America

War for the Soul of America A History of the Culture Wars (Second Edition)

Hartman Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226621913, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When it was published in 2015, Andrew Hartman's history of the culture wars was widely praised for its compelling and even-handed account of the way they developed and came to define American politics as the twentieth century drew to its close. Recei...

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