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Anthracite Ghosts

Dinteman Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780940866454, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
103 pp., 28x21.7 cm

Walter Dinteman wandered the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1973, photographic the remains of the anthracite coal industry. Many of these buildings have long since decayed. Dinteman's photographs tell the story of beauty amid d...

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Art in Mind How Contemporary Images Shape Thought

Alphen Ernst van

ISBN: PB: 9780226015293, ISBN: HB: 9780226015286, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 72 halftones

Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In "Art in Mind", Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intelle...

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Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones

The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...

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Contemporary Art

Sebastian's Arrows Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

Dali Salvador, Lorca Federico Garcia

ISBN: HB: 9780967880884, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2005
248 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates

"Let us agree", Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian". "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you", Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had j...

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Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits

Wheelock Jr. Arthur K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226894430, University of Chicago Press, February 2005
150 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 30 halftones

One of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt's extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figures from the late 1650s and early 1660s. Painted during a difficult time in the artist's life – when he n...

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Rebecca Morris Paintings 1996-2005

Dieerichsen Diedrich, Westfall Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780941548496, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2005
88 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 39 colour plates

If the closure of Modernist painting is taken as the closure of painting itself, then under the aegis of postmodernism, painting's history is a finite collection of fully legible styles up for being quoted. In this circumstance, the question arises o...

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Contemporary Art

Open Studio Essays on Art and Aesthetics

Stewart Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780226774466, University of Chicago Press, January 2005
256 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 36 halftones

Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and lea...

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Lasting Impressions The Grolier Club Library

Holzenberg Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780910672528, University of Chicago Press, November 2004
224 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 180 colour plates, 50 halftones

Three years after the founding of the Grolier Club in 1884, the club's Library Committee was established with a mission "to gather together for the use of the members all the standard bibliographical works, as well as books relating to the art of pri...

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Smart Collecting Acquisitions 1990-2004, Celebrating the Thirtieth Anniversary of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art

Rorschach Kimerly

ISBN: PB: 9780935573411, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 2004
224 pp., 26.7x20.8 cm, 128 colour plates

The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with this lively and richly illustrated catalog of recent acquisitions by the museum. Published in conjunction with the museum's "Smart Collect...

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Between Past and Future New Photography and Video from China

Hung Wu, Phillips Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780935573398, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, June 2004
224 pp., 28.5x25.6 cm, 75 colour images, 40 halftones

The massive political, economic, and social changes China has undergone during the past decade have dramatically altered its cultural landscape. The exhibition "New Photography from China" and its catalogue offer the first comprehensive look at the b...

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