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Picturing Time The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

Braun Marta

ISBN: PB: 9780226071756, University of Chicago Press, January 1995
472 pp., 24.1x20.8 cm, 270 halftones, 65 line drawings

Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography".Pic...

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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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Serra Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226748801, University of Chicago Press, August 1994
286 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones

One of the most important sculptors of this century, Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether u...

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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

Design

Making the Modern Industry, Art, and Design in America

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780226763477, University of Chicago Press, January 1994
528 pp., 24.1x16.4 cm, 156 halftones

In this ambitious book, Terry Smith chronicles the modernist revolution in American art and design between the world wars – from its origins in the new industrial age of mass production, automation, and corporate culture to its powerful and transform...

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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

Color Harmonies

Garau Augusto

ISBN: PB: 9780226281964, University of Chicago Press, May 1993
100 pp., 20.5x20.5 cm, 10 halftones, 40 colour plates

Because theories of visual perception have traditionally concentrated on form, artists have generally dealt with the problem of color through their own observation and intuition. In "Color Harmonies", Augusto Garau systematically investigates the rol...

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History of Art

Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze Picasso's Pursuit of the Model

Kleinfelder Karen L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439839, University of Chicago Press, April 1993
273 pp., 24.7x23.3 cm, 154 halftones

Although Pablo Picasso's name is virtually synonymous with modernity, his late graphics repeatedly turn back to the traditional theme of the artist and model. Had the aging artist turned reactionary, or is Picasso's treatment of the theme more subver...

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History of Art

Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the French Painting World

White Harrison C., White Cynthia A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226894874, University of Chicago Press, March 1993
198 pp., 21.9x14.2 cm, 13 halftones

In the nineteenth century, the Academie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present system of art distribution, which is dependent upon crit...

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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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