ledochowicz.com

Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2018, Issue 46

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381973, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm

PB:

£16,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Enchanted Islands Picturing the Allure of Conquest in Eighteenth-Century France

Sheriff Mary D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226483108, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 43 halftones

In "Enchanted Islands", renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings...

HB:

£42,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Contemporary Art

Home for Surrealism

Mileaf Janine, Rossen Susan F.

ISBN: HB: 9781891925498, University of Chicago Press, Arts Club of Chicago, August 2018
136 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 40 colour plates, 28 figures

Chicago has for decades years been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this interna...

HB:

£34,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring/Summer 2018, Issue 45

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

ISBN: PB: 9780226578163, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

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. I...

PB:

£16,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Outliers and American Vanguard Art

Cooke Lynne

ISBN: HB: 9780226522272, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
448 pp., 30.4x25 cm, 450 colour plates

Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it ha...

HB:

£49,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Media Studies

Image Science Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell's no...

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 52, 2017

Baetjer Katharine, Kornhauser Elisabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226536842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

The "Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a possible Cypriot origin for an Assyrian stone mixing bowl in the C...

PB:

£41,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

History of Art

Other Transatlantic Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Dziewanska Marta, Roelstraete Dieter, Winograd Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9788364177422, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2018
250 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 50 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! "The Other Transatlantic" is attuned to the brief but historically significant moment in the postwar period between 1950 and 1970 when the trajectories of the Eastern European art scenes on the one hand, and their Latin Amer...

PB:

£22,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Kinaesthetic Knowing Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design

Alexander Zeynep Celik

ISBN: HB: 9780226485201, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 99 halftones

Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of know...

HB:

£41,50

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Contemporary Art

Power of Material / Politics of Materiality

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones

Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...

PB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list