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Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting in Australia and the United States

Read Richard, Haltman Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780932171696, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 colour plates

This volume of essays frames a comparative history of landscape painting in Australia and the United States through recent considerations of the Anthropocene, arguing that careful and deep analysis of specific nineteenth-century artworks reveals issu...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 54, 2019

Allon Niv, D'Alessandro Stephanie, Graff Sarah, Najat Haidar Navina, Holcomb Melanie, Leona Marco, Mahon Dorothy, McDonald Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226676968, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2019, Issue 48

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Rujoiu Anca, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846382116, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Launched in 1999, Afterall is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. Vol...

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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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Michelangelo's Painting Selected Essays

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226482262, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 124 colour plates, 122 halftones

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemp...

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Endless Periphery Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy

Campbell Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226481456, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 127 colour plates, 45 halftones

While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy's historical seats of power, some of the era's most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the...

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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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Contemporary Art

Aesthetic Theory

Mersch Dieter, Zanetti Sandro, Sasse Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9783035801460, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
240 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 15 colour plates, 20 halftones

Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic the...

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Cao Jun Hymns to Nature

Sallis John

ISBN: PB: 9781892850300, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2019
125 pp., 35.6x30.5 cm, 64 colour plates, 8 halftones

No contemporary artist has succeeded so thoroughly in blending classical Chinese art and modern abstract art as Cao Jun, who has exhibited widely in China, as well as at the Louvre. Accompanying an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston Col...

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Theme and Variations The Multiple Sorceries of Felix Buhot

Leonard Anne

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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